In the summer of 1974, I wrote a paper at Harvard University entitled “Brassaï and Surrealism, Brassaï as Surrealist.” The professor, I later discovered, was Brassaï’s acquaintance, and had me forward ...

In the early 1930s, the writer Henry Miller dubbed Brassaï “the eye of Paris” but in fact the late photographer didn’t settle down in the City of Lights until he was in his mid-20s. Born Gyula Halász ...

“Nightlife,” a new exhibition at New York’s Marlborough gallery, brings together the works of six photographers known for chronicling the nocturnal goings-on of European and American cities in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. This article is more than 8 years old. No facet of Paris was ...

It’s unlikely that any single artist has ever been — or ever will be — as intimately associated with Paris as the Hungarian-born photographer, writer and filmmaker Gyula Halász, known to the world as ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Two lovers embrace on a double-sided bench, the backs of their heads illuminated by the garish light of a Paris gas lamp. But a second glance at the 1931-32 Brassai photograph ...

The Spaniard shared with the photographer a love of the circus, and of animals - a 1944 Brassai image shows Picasso's Afghan hound, Kazbek, lounging on a small Persian rug in the artist's studio, ...