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(1912 -1968) was a photographer and an artist. His works are in the National Gallery Museum in Budapest, as well as in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. |
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| His body of photographs starts in his native Hungary with portraits of Hungarian Roma and landscapes. |
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| Later living in Paris, he specializes in street scenes and French landmarks, as well as in portraits of artists and intellectuals (Picasso, Chagall, Cocteau, Léautaud...). | ![]() |
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In 1959, he publishes Paris m'a souri, a portrait of Paris, with the poet Maurice Fombeure. One of the photographers he admired was Atget. |
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| The poet and novelist Blaise Cendrars called him "l'as du noir et blanc", the champ of black and white photography. | |||||||||||
| For a more complete biography click here. | |||||||||||
Some photographs are viewable through the Los Angeles-based Stephen Cohen Gallery which represents his estate. A couple more images are viewable here: an antique shop and a street corner.
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