Gyula Halász (Braszai): The Poet of Parisian Night Gyula Halász, better known as Brassaï (pronounced Brah-sigh), was a Hungarian-born French photographer whose nocturnal vision of Paris transformed the city’s shadowed streets and bohemian nightlife into a modern myth. Born on September 9, 1899, in Brassó (now Brașov), Romania—a region then part of Austria-Hungary—he pursued artistic training initially in Budapest and Berlin before establishing himself as a journalist in Paris in 1924. It was this Parisian encounter that proved pivotal, sparking an enduring friendship with Eugène Atget, whose…