biography
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Brassaï
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professional name of Gyula Halasz
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pronunciation:
[brasaee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1984)
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| biography:
| Painter and photographer, born in Brasso, Hungary. Coming to Paris in 1923, he worked as a journalist, and from 1930 used photography to record the underworld and night-life of 1930s Paris. His first collection, Paris de nuit (1933, Paris by Night), caused a sensation. He became a French citizen in 1948. |
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