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Picasso in His Studio on Grands-Augustins Street, Paris
Creator
BrassaïPhotographer · 1899–1984
All works by this person →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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- September 1939
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- Hungarian
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- d88786fa-6c73-451a-a24b-70f68be8de96
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During the four decades of their friendship, Pablo Picasso inspired some of Brassaï's greatest written and photographic efforts. Indeed Picasso was the subject of Brassaï's most extensive and complex portrait of an artist and his work. In 1939 Brassaï photographed Picasso for *Life* magazine, following him through his daily routine, which included lunching with friends and receiving guests in his studio. Here Brassaï framed the suited artist in the shadow cast by an enormous, pot-bellied stove that seems as much a work of art as one of Picasso's sculptures.
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