Source
Brassaï
Citation
Brassaï. Wikipedia. Fetched 2026-05-02 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassa%C3%AF.
Tier justification
Tier 3: Wikipedia is pointer-only per CREDIBILITY.md. Recorded here for the photographer biographical anchor that supports pher-brassai in data/photographers.csv (PR #110 / this batch).
Relevance
Brassaï has 6 plates in The Family of Man (count verified by grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-02). The Wikipedia article is the primary biographical pointer source until a Tier 1/2 monograph (e.g., the 2018 Brassaï by Sylvie Aubenas at Centre Pompidou, or the Brassai Estate’s institutional documentation) can be located and fetched directly.
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim from the article (fetched 2026-05-02):
- Birth name: Gyula Halász
- Birth: 9 September 1899 in Brassó, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Brașov, Romania)
- Death: 8 July 1984. Place described two ways on the same Wikipedia article: the infobox gives “Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France”; the Death section reads verbatim: “Brassaï died on 8 July 1984 at his home on the French Riviera near Nice and was buried at Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.” (Beaulieu-sur-Mer is a commune on the French Riviera approximately 7 km east of Nice; the two descriptions are not in contradiction.)
- Nationality: Hungarian-French (naturalized French citizen in 1949)
- Pseudonym: adopted from his birthplace Brassó
- Notable works: the 1933 publication Paris de nuit, capturing Parisian nightlife
- Steichen connection: the article notes that “Steichen curated an exhibition of Brassaï’s work at MoMA in 1956” — the year after The Family of Man — but does not separately reference the Family of Man 1955 inclusion. The FoM inclusion is established by Brassaï’s 6 plates per the MoMA Master Checklist (
src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist, in repo).
Notes
- Per
CREDIBILITY.mdWikipedia is treated as a pointer source — these biographical claims (1899 Brassó birth, 1984 Beaulieu-sur-Mer death, 1949 French naturalization) should be promoted to Tier 1 / Tier 2 against a Brassaï catalogue raisonné or the Estate’s institutional documentation before being cited as authoritative. - The Steichen-Brassaï 1956 MoMA exhibition reference is a complementary anchor — the year after FoM, suggesting the existing Steichen-Brassaï curatorial relationship that placed Brassaï’s six plates in the 1955 show.
- Cross-references:
src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist(in repo, source for the 6 Brassaï plates in FoM),src-niven-1997(Steichen biography, NOT consulted this round for Brassaï material).