![]() For the time, it was a technical mastery of shooting at night. It combined glowing city landscapes with documentary images of the bars, cafes and nightlife of Paris. Within 2 years he assembled these photographs in a book entitled “Paris by Night”. So he turned to a fellow Hungarian immigrant, André Kertész. His interest in photography was inspired by his long night time walks. He studied painting and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hungary, but with Hungary in shambles after WWI, he left for Paris. The name he chose is just Hungarian for “from Braşov”, a region in Hungary. His real name was Halász Gyula, but it didn’t take him long to realize that was not a name that would easily promote his art. ![]() ![]() He was born in 1899 in what is today Hungary. It seemed Brassai and Paris nights were almost a synonym. Actually, it was the writer Henry Miller who started calling him “The Eye of Paris”.
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