La Mort (Death).
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Title |
La Mort (Death). |
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Alternative Title |
Le Mort (Death). |
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Creator |
Brassai (French photographer, 1899-1984, born in Hungary) |
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Cultural Context |
European
Western European
French
Parisian |
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Subject |
Graffiti
City & town life |
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Description |
"The Hungarian-born photographer Brassai (Gyula Halasz) moved to Paris in the early 1920s and became friendly with avant-garde figures such as Picasso. In the 1920s and 1930s he photographed the low life of the city, deeply influenced by a knowledge of Surrealism. At the same time he began to photograph graffiti, a preoccupation which continued during the wartime Occupation. Such images, which were not published until 1960, evoke the scarred urban landscape which affected contemporary informel painters." (Caption, p.21); "Such images [referring to works by Jean Dubuffet] had distinct associations with the wall graffiti and indentations, redolent of the sufferings of Occupied Paris, which Brassai photographed." (Excerpt, p.19) |
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Technique |
Black-and-white photography
Photography
Photographic processes
Photographic techniques
Documentary photography |
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Work Type |
Photographs
Documentary photographs
Graffiti |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.21, fig.10) |
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Rights |
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of the estate of the artist. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 827-08.jpg |
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