Brassaï
Dicecream Magazine📷Brassaï (pseudonym of Gyula Halász; born 9 September 1899 – 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian–French photographer, sculptor, medalist, writer, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century.
He was one of the numerous Hungarian artists who flourished in Paris beginning between the World wars.
He moved to Paris in 1924, where he worked as a journalist and joined a circle of Hungarian artists and writers.
After dark, he wandered his neighborhood of Montparnasse and documented prostitutes, street cleaners, and other characters of the city nightlife, publishing his work in the seminal 1993 book Paris de Nuit.
Though Brassaï is famous for capturing the grittier aspects of the city, he also documented high society, including the ballet, opera, and intellectuals—among them his friends and contemporaries, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, and Henri Matisse.
Brassaï died on 8 July 1984 at his home on the French Riviera near Nice. He was 84 years old.
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