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Avenue de l'observatoire dans le brouillard [man on bench]
Creator
BrassaïPhotographer · 1899–1984
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After moving to Paris in 1924, Gyula Halász renamed himself Brassaï, after his hometown of Brasso, Hungary. In Paris he worked as a journalist and painter until around 1929, when he took up photography on the advice of fellow Hungarian André Kertész. A natural storyteller, Brassaï revealed his unscientific yet practical method of making exposures of Paris at night: *To gauge my shutter time, I wou
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- about 1930–1934
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- Hungarian
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 984e5fb6-41cf-44af-8fca-f3a621905b70
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