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...ambitious to be a painter, he spent his first years working as a journalist. Eventually he started taking pictures to accompany his articles. It was his initial embarrassment at mere picture taking that led him to publish his photos under a pseudonym, Brassai, a Hungarian word meaning "from Brasso," his childhood village. He wanted to save his birth name, Gyula Halasz, for the paintings that he expected would secure his fame. In the end his paintings would be all but forgotten and his photographs would be famous. He would be too, forever, as Brassai...
Back in the office, she can overhear the complaints brought in to the outside orderly room. "I drank Brasso," one frightened recruit whimpers. While the sergeant first class calls the base hospital, Stratton mutters, "He didn't drink Brasso. He's just trying to get discharged." Later an MP walks in with an 18-year-old AWOL soldier, who tries to explain that he was worried about his wife. "He's going to get 14 days' extra duty and 14 days' restrictions," remarks Stratton in the inside office, while the downcast recruit waits outside...
Brassai was born Gyula Halasz in 1900 in Brasso, a village in Hungarian Transylvania. He arrived in Paris in 1924 after art studies in Budapest and Berlin, determined to make his fortune as a painter. Not until the age of thirty did he hold a camera. His interest in photography grew quickly, however, as he discovered that with a camera he could capture and portray the restless energy and labyrinthine density of Paris. Finally he could fix forever the flickering images he saw in the subterranean night world of cafes and bars that so fascinated him. He became a photographer...
...young Hungarian took a version of the name Brasso as a pseudonym and for four decades he has photographed the streets and graffiti, nightclubs and their patrons, the artists, tramps and peasants of his adopted city. His pictures have become inextricably linked with the myth and mystique of Paris and have earned immortality for both the photographer and his subject...
...batting orders: HARVARD NORTHEASTERN Heckel, 3b 2b, Lee Johns, 2b ss, Phillips Gannett, cf lf, Gill Lupien, 1b cf, Grogan Prouty, lf rf, Little Cunningham, rf 1b, Sessler Thompson, ss 3b, Brasso Bacon, c c, Connelly Foley, p p, Callohan
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