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...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...
...objective mediator by both sides. The Secretary-General and Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Enrique Ros, with whom he is dealing, were not only fellow South Americans and diplomatic neighbors but longtime personal friends as well. Pérez de Cuéllar told TIME's Louis Halasz: "I thought that perhaps at some stage British public opinion would say, 'This gentleman is from South America and he might tilt toward the Argentines.' But I must say the British government has always given me its full support and expressed its full confidence in me." The British have indeed...
...reach of obtaining an absolute majority in the Knesset. But in a poll taken just before the raid, Likud pulled ahead of Labor, 38% to 33%, and Menachem Begin appeared to be within reach of another four-year term. -By Marguerite Johnson. Reported by David Aikman/Jerusalem and Louis Halasz at the United Nations, with other bureaus
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...
...SWINGER'S GUIDE TO LONDON by Piri Halasz. 207 pages. Coward-McCann...