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Facts

Also Known As Gyula Halász • Jules Halasz
Born September 9, 1899 • Austria-Hungary
Died July 8, 1984 (aged 84) • Èze • France

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“Bijoux” in Place Pigalle Bar, by Brassaï, 1932.
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Yinka Shonibare, 2016
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David Hockney
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Gordon Parks
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Diane Arbus sits at a table holding a large vintage camera, looking to the side, in a black and white portrait taken in a New York Automat around 1968.
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Jacob Riis
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Ernst Haas, photograph by Erich Hartmann.
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David Seymour.
David Seymour
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Roger Fenton
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