He is a photographer and designer of Romanian origin. He is the younger brother of surrealist painter Victor Brauner. Shortly after his birth, his Romanian family returned to Romania and settled in the capital Bucharest in 1918. At the age of 13, he founded the magazine FIUNK together with his friends. In 1929, he joined the magazine Alge, where Paul Paùn and Gherasim Luca were active. Passionate about photography and very aware of the artistic avant-garde, in 1934 he developed Solarfix, a new photogram technique using direct sunlight and no camera.