Brassai
Brassai, pseudonym of Gyula Halsz, the 9 September 1899 in Braov Brass - city then Austro-Hungarian and attached to Romania since) and died on 8 July 1984 to Eze ( Alpes-Maritimes ), was a photographer for the French ' Hungarian origin, and as a draftsman, painter, sculptor and writer.
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Biography
Gyula Halsz was three when her family moved to Paris where they joined the father who teaches literature at the Sorbonne. Young man, Gyula Halsz studied painting and sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Budapest before joining the Austro-Hungarian cavalry to serve there during the First World War. In 1920 he went to Berlin where he worked as a reporter while attending classes at the Academy of Fine Arts Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Halsz moved in 1924 to Paris. Alone, he learned French by reading the works of Marcel Proust. Located in Montparnasse in the heart of artistic Paris in the 1920s, it binds to Henry Miller , Leon-Paul Fargue and Jacques Prevert.
He resumed his career as a journalist. He later wrote that the photo had helped to capture the nightlife in Paris, the beautiful streets and gardens, rain or shine. Using his birthplace, Gyula Halsz is forged from 1923 the pseudonym of Brassa which means "from Brasso." It was under this name that stands out as one that captures the essence of the city in his photographs, publishing a first book in 1932 titled "Paris de nuit" which receives a huge success and will do the same nickname "Eye of Paris" by Miller in one of his essays. Outside of his photos of the Paris underworld, dark, Brassa was also interested in high society, intellectuals, dance and opera. He photographed many of his contemporaries, such as Salvador Dal , Pablo Picasso , Henri Matisse , Alberto Giacometti and some of the major writers of the time: Jean Genet , Henri Michaux. One of his photographs in the series of graffiti will be used to cover the collection of Jacques Prevert lyrics in 1946.
His photographs offered to international fame Brassa. In 1956 , his film "As long as there are beasts" wins award at Cannes and in 1974 he was elevated to the rank of Chevalier of Arts and Letters, before receiving in 1976 , the Legion of Honour. He won the first " Grand Prix of photography , two years later in Paris.
In addition to his photographic works, Brassa wrote seventeen books and numerous articles, especially history of Mary, published with an introduction by Henry Miller.
Brassa is buried in Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.
In the year 2000 , a major retrospective of 450 of his works was shown at the Pompidou Centre , with the help of his widow, Gilberte.
Books by Brassa
- Paris by Night (1932)
- Marcel Proust under the influence of photography
- Henry Miller size
- Henry Miller happy rock
- Conversations with Picasso
- History of Mary
- Send in the Air
- Graffiti
- In 1960, Brassa publishes this book, the fruit of thirty years of research, regularly reprinted, which offers a form of graffiti as art brut, primitive, ephemeral. Picasso is involved. This is probably the first time that we talk about graffiti as an art.
- The Secret Paris of the 1930s
- Travel U.S.
- "Transmutation", 1967, with 12 engravings on silver bromide emulsion 17.8 x 23.8 cm. 100 copies
Sound recordings
- by Roger Grenier , radio interview with Brassa 1964, 2CD interviews 1 & 2 and interviews 3 & 4; editor INA , Collection "Naked Voice", 1986
Catalogues
- Exposure. Paris, Galerie canopy. 1972-1973: Brassai: sculptures, tapestries, drawings: exhibition , gallery Canopy ... Paris ... Collections
- Hungarian Museum of Photography
- Departmental Matisse Museum in Le Cateau-Cambrai (Nord) France
External Links
- Fluoroscopy Brassa Ina Archives Tv
- Photo agency NMR
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