Brassaï, is acclaimed as one of France's most famous photographers, whose unique chronicler of Paris in the twenties and thirties dubbed him the “eye of Paris”, a title given by the American writer Henry Miller.

Famous for capturing the truth as well as forging the myth of Parisian bohemia, Brassaï was born Gyula Halász in Brassó, the Hungarian part of Romania, on September 9, 1899.