Brassaï at Foam

A fantastic overview of this master in street photography when that concept didn't even exist.

Born on 9 September 1899 in Brasso Hongary as Gyula Halász. When he was 3 his parents moved to Paris where his father became a professor at the Sorbonne.

In 1920 he went to Berlin where he became a correspondent for Hungarian newspapers and returned to Paris in 1924 as journalist where he would live for the rest of his life.

First as illustrations for his stories and later on more and more for the beauty of the photographic scenes and atmosphere he photographed mostly at the late hours in the night . He died in 1984 

I must say that it is such an inspirational exhibition that you as photographing visitor not can wait to use a camera yourself and what easy we have it now compared to his time but to reach that level that's still impossible.

The exhibition will last until 4 December 2019 in Foam.