Brassai photography couple

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During these nightly sojourns, Brassai was also fascinated by the activities of society. In the bars and in the streets he recorded the night owls of the city, photographing tramps, prostiutes, lovers, dancers, and other colorful figures. Email us at vaimages vam. Image of. Exit License this image To license this image or for more information please contact our Licensing team.

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Other uses, including exhibition catalogue and display, broadcast, advertising, book jackets and commercial packaging, are covered by our commercial terms. Please contact our Licensing team for more information. Download image Download image JPG. Alternatively search more than 1. In the fall ofGyula joined the Austro-Hungarian cavalry regiment, but did not see combat due to his sprained knee and having spent much of the war convalescing in a military hospital.

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Once his military duties were over, and in spite of continued hostilities, Gyula studied painting and sculpture at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. Mattis-Teutsch, an accomplished painter in his own right, was attached to an influential group of Hungarian and international avant-gardists, and through that friendship, Gyula too soon found himself immersed in Budapest's avant-garde community.

Soon after the signing of the Armistice in NovemberGyula joined the Hungarian Red Army to fight in support of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic, a Communist rump state that lasted only days. He fled Budapest as a conservative regime replaced the Communist government in On the advice of his father, Gyula, now twenty, decided to head to Berlin.

He had a fluent command of German, and, as a former citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he was welcomed into the city. Indeed, he took up work as a journalist for the Hungarian papers Keleti and Napkelet while attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg. During this period, he learned more about painting, theatre and music, and wrote prose and poetry.

At the end of only his first semester, Gyula left Berlin and his studies behind. He returned to home in preparation for his return to Paris. By Montparnasse had become the center of avant-gardist activity. Upon his arrival in the February of that year Gyula duly sought out his Berlin acquaintances. He brushed up on his French by reading Proust and he earned his living by working as a journalist for the German and Hungarian press.

Brassai photography couple: Young Couple Wearing a Two-in-One Suit

Gyula would sometimes illustrate his interviews and articles with drawn caricatures, or photographs, which he sourced from junk shops or booksellers operating along the banks of the Seine. Photographic imagery was in especially high demand within the booming publishing industry and, in DecemberGyula joined the German picture agency Mauritius Verlag.

Having sourced images for the German press fromGyula had started to make his own photographic images by the end of the decade. Gyula was able to sell the reproduction rights of his photographs to other magazines and books and this provided him with sufficient revenue to survive the depression years. Gyula still nurtured his dream to become a painter however, and in order to reserve his real name for his true art, Gyula used and had already used intermittedly pseudonyms for many of his journalistic articles Jean d'Erleich, being perhaps the best known.

Like his father, Gyula, with his love for Paris and French manners found himself as welcome in aristocratic circles to which his lover Madame Delaunay-Bellville had introduced him as he was in the demi-monde of prostitutes and pimps. His photographic career effectively soared after showing mounted prints to the editor Carlo Rim and the publisher Lucien Vogel of the magazine VU.

It was the writer and friend Henry Miller who gave him his famous nickname, the "eye of Paris. The success of Paris by Night brought him contracts for further books, and commissions for publicity portraits of artists and writers, too. The Greek-born art critic E. This collection appeared in the young Swiss publisher Albert Skira's deluxe art magazine Minotaurewhich first published in June In he became one of the first members of the venerable Rapho agencycreated in Paris by another Hungarian immigrant Charles Rado.

The book focused on street prostitutes, gay balls, guinches PortugueseKiki de Montparnasse and the Casino de Paris and other urban meeting places. He could switch between street and artistic photography but chose to focus now more on high society. He contributed images to monthly arts and culture publications including Liliput and Coronet and, as ofthe upmarket American magazine Harper's Bazaar.

Indeed, in the spring of he took the decision to resign from his brassai photography couple at the magazine Coiffure de Paris to devote his energies to painting and sculpture. However, the German invasion of France in the summer of derailed his plan. He had to obtain false Romanian papers while his only means of income proved to be a clandestine commission from Picasso, his friend now of some ten years, to photograph sculptures for a planned book.

He worked once more for Harper's Bazaar whose generous commissions took him travelling around the world. He began to explore writing, filmmaking, and theater at this time also. He engaged successfully with filmmaking too and in he won the award for Most Original Film at the Cannes Film Festival for his movie Tant qu'il y aura des betes As Long as there are Animals.