Brassaï

Brassai was a surrealist photographer who was born on 9th September 1899 in what is now known as Romania. He passed away on 8th July 1984 in his home on the French Riviera near Nice. Brassaï trained as an artist and settled in Paris in 1924. There he worked as a sculptor, painter, and journalist and associated with such artists as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, and the writer Henry Miller.