BRASSAI

BRASSAI 

Brassaï (pseudony of Gyula Halász; 9 September 1899 – 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian photographer, sculptor, 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. In the early 21st century, the discovery of more than 200 letters and hundreds of drawings and other items from the period 1940–1984 has provided scholars with material for understanding his later life and career.BRASSAI took his name from the town of his birth, Brasso, in Transylvania, then part of Hungary, later of Roumania, and famous as the home of Court Dracula. He studied art at the academies of Budapest and Berlin before coming to Paris in the mid-twenties. He was completely disinterested in photography, if not scornful of it, until he saw the work being done by his acquaintance Andre Kertesz, which inspired him to take up the medium himself.


Brassai work is very French and jazzes feeling like the 40's style to his work which is so beautiful and he dose it in a classy way,like in this photo to the right if you look,you've got Eiffel tower in the back and reflecting onto the water with the lights on the bridge and with the boats,it just makes it feel very 40's I say that just because when I imagine the 40's I think of pin up girls,Paris and burlesques and blues/jazz and that's what I get when I look at this photo which is impressing just by looking at the photo.Ans he went with a black and white which just sets the mood even more because it make you feel like you can imagine yourself walking down and seeing this,His main focal point is the lights on the bridge just because just every-time I look at the photo my eye just got to the light on the bridge.
What I like most about this photo is the its in black and white which gives it the more 40's look/style and the way he makes all the light go to the middle of the photo so he makes the Eiffel tower the main focal point as well.



Now in this photo it still has the 40's feel/jazziness to it but this one is different because there is a women stand there in the middle of the night waiting for something or someone? This photo gets you thinking what is a women doing out this later and in those days women shouldn't be on there own and makes me think she might be a harlot/sex worker/lady of the night,however you want to say it but this photo is interesting because of the way he has used the light,like she is hiding from people like she likes to stand and watch and then makes her move,like she stands in the shadows so no one can see her and shame her for what she is doing,but in those days if you wasn't married or kid child out of wedded lock then you had to do things like this.
The main focal point in this photo is the women standing in the middle of the photo so all the focus is on her and the light shinning on her makes the shadow draw out the the end of the photo and once again he his used black and white to give it the cold feel to the photo with her just standing there by herself,obviously its in France because the photographer was French








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