Great Black and White Photography part 2.

The Photographer that i have chosen is Brassai (Gyula Hakasz), He was born on September 9, 1899, and died on July 8, 1984. He was born in Brasso', in Hungary, now Romania.... His father is a hungarian and his mother is a Armenian.Gyula Halász studied painting and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, before joining a cavalry regiment of the Austro-Hungarian army, where he served until the end of the first world war. However in 1920, he went to Berlin, were he worked as a journalist adn studied at the Berlin-Charlottenburg academy of fine arts. 
After moving to paris in 1924 (for the rest of his life), he became a journalist, and eventually became friends with; Henry Miller, Léon-Paul Fargue, and the poet Jacques Prévert.  Brassi' and so much Love and interest for the city that he often roamed it at night just to see the way it looked all light up or filled with new things and people. His roaming at night eventually became photography he started taking. The Hungrian master Andre Kertesz, became to be his tutorer for shooting his photography. His pictures began to go with his writing for example, He later wrote that "Photograhpy later allowed me to seize the paris night and the beauty of the streets, and gradens, in rain and mist. 
 His nickname "Brassai" comes from his home town, meaning "from Brasso". He happened to have great success and since everyone thought his photographs were a great way to capture the essence of the city, He came out with his first book (of photographs) in 1933, it was titled "Paris de nuit" (Paris by night). He also liked to photograph many of his great artist friends, even some of his promonnt writers of his time. 

Since he had been a founding member of  the Rapho Agency, created in Paris by charles Rado in 1933. His 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.