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Preview image of work. gelatin silver print,  Untitled (Graffiti number 80 from the series "Magic") 21940

2011.5

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Untitled (Graffiti number 80 from the series "Magic")

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Artist

Brassäi (Gyula Halász) (Hungary, 1899 - 1984, Côte d'Azur, France)

Title

Untitled (Graffiti number 80 from the series "Magic")

Creation Date

ca. 1933-1956

Dimensions

4 11/16 in. x 3 9/16 in. (11.91 cm x 9.1 cm)

Classification

Photographs

Creation Place

Eastern Europe, Hungary

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print

Credit Line

Museum Purchase, Gridley W. Tarbell II Fund and the Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund

Copyright

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Accession Number

2011.5

In a series that occupied him for three decades, Brassaï documented Parisian graffiti. In his perception, these marks were the scribblings of urban “primitives” who, unhampered by cultural restrictions, expressed themselves subversively and destructively. The menacing faces gouged into walls were found objects that, when photographed by Brassaï at close range and in dramatic lighting, gained the mythic power of symbolic masks.