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| After 1961, he stopped photographing, dying 23 years later in 1984 at the age of 85. |
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| Brassaï was the pseudonym of Gyula Halász (1899-1984), a Hungarian, Parisian photographer. |
| Brassaï's photographs brought him international fame leading to a one-man show in the United States at the George Eastman House in
Rochester, New York, the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, and at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. |
| In 1956, his film, Tant qu'il y aura des bêtes, won the "Most Original Film" award at the Cannes Film Festival and in 1974 he was made
Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters and given the Legion of Honor in 1976. Two years later, in 1978, he won the first "Grand Prix National de
la Photographie" in Paris. |
| As well as a photographer, Brassaï was the author of seventeen books and numerous articles, including the 1948 novel Histoire de Marie, which
was published with an introduction by Henry Miller. His Letters to My Parents and Conversations with Picasso, have been translated into
English and published by the University of Chicago Press. |
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