His name was Brassai but born as Gyula Halasz. He was born Sept 9 1899 to July 8 1984 to a Armenian mother and Hungarian father. He was born in Basso, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary in Romania. When he was 3 he lived in Paris for a year while his dad taught French literature. As young boy he studied painting and sculpture. He later joined the Calvary regiment of the Austro-Hungarian army and served until the end of the first World War. In 1920 he worked as a Journalist for the Hungarian papers. In 1924 he moved to Paris where he would live the rest of his life. Brassaï captured the essence of the city in his photographs, published as his first collection in 1933 book entitled Paris de nuit (Paris by Night). His book, gained great success, resulting in his being called "the eye of Paris" in an essay by his friend Henry Miller. He had been befriended by a French family who gave him access to the upper classes. In 1948 Brassai married Gilberte Boyer, a French woman. She worked with him in supporting his photography. In 1949 he became a naturalized French citizen after years of being stateless. In 1956, Brassai directed a film Tant qu'il y aura des betes (As long as there will be animals), shot at the Paris Vincennes Zoo.
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