Believe it or not, there was a time when cameras didn't exist. The technology we take for granted today was once the greatest and most inspiring invention ever made. Before the camera, the only way people could take a personal photograph of themselves was to hire a professional painter to paint them while they posed for hours at a time. It was a tedious task but one that had to be done, and at the time it was the only way a person could have something to show for how they looked in the past. Of course the painters hired were only for the rich and famous, there was no way an ordinary man could document himself and his family through a portrait of himself. Photography has changed and developed in many ways since it was created in the early 1800s and has become a widely known and respected art form that involves freezing an image or moment in time to create beautiful, seamless photographs. time. From the pinhole to the digital camera, photography has become increasingly easier for people to use, and taking photographs has become a pastime. Nowadays people take hundreds of photos at a time, as they now have the ability to view, delete and re-take photos they don't like. However, looking back, before the technological aspect of the camera was put together, throughout the photographic timeline, there are many different photographers who have skillfully captured many special moments and displayed them in the most creative ways. One of those famous photographers now classified as a master of this art form, Gyula Halász was also known in the photography world as Brassaї. Gyula Halász was born in September 1899 in Brasso, Hungary, now known as Romania, to a Hungarian father and an Armenian mother. In h... in the center of the sheet... taken on the spot, all natural, no posing allowed. The only type of photography he was interested in were still ones, not those taken over and over again of the same scene, but he felt that the photos he took would be better if they seemed more accidental, they would be more original and his . His inspiration was the audience and the way he presented himself to the world. When preparing to take a photo in a bar, he waited for people to stop posing as they were supposed to in front of the camera, but instead waited for them to forget he was there and take the photo of the face they showed at the bar. world. Brassaї had a way of seeing things as they are instead of how others want them to be seen. People were simply people: nothing more or less was expected from them because for him they were beautiful just as they are.