Interesting facts about andré kertész
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Satiric Dancer
1926
Silver gelatin print, printed later
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Mondrian’s Glasses and Pipe, Paris, France
1926
Silver gelatin print mounted to card, printed 1928
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Modernist Tree Study
1923
Vintage silver gelatin print, printed 1923
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Chez Mondrian, Paris, 1926
Silver gelatin print, printed circa 1982
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André Kertész
Fork, Paris, 1928
Silver gelatin print, printed circa 1960
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Broken Plate, 1929
Silver gelatin print, printed circa 1980s
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André Kertész
Chairs of Paris, 1927
Silver gelatin print, printed circa 1980
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André Kertész
Satiric Dancer, Paris, 1926
Silver gelatin print, printed later
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André Kertész
The Daisy Bar, Montmartre, Paris, 1930
Silver gelatin print, printed circa 1980
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André Kertész
Pont Des Arts, 1929
Silver gelatin print, printed circa 1982
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Melancholic Tulip, 1939
Silver gelatin print, printed later
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Washington Square, New York, 1954
Early silver gelatin prin
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André Kertész
André Kertész, born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism. Expected by his family to work as a stockbroker, Kertész pursued photography independently as an autodidact, and his early work was published primarily in magazines, a major market in those years. This continued until much later in his life, when Kertész stopped accepting commissions. He served briefly in World War I and moved to Paris in 1925, then the artistic capital of the world, against the wishes of his family.
In Paris he worked for France's first illustrated magazine called VU. Involved with many young immigrant artists and the Dada movement, he achieved critical and commercial success. Due to German persecution of the Jews and
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André Kertész Biography
HUNGARY 1894-1925 | A Vocation Found
July 2, 1894
Andor Kertész – later André Kertész – is born in Budapest, as the middle child of a middle-class Jewish family. His father, Lipót Kertész (ca. 1842-1909) was a book merchant, his mother, Ernesztin Hoffmann (1863-1933) owned a coffee bar.
c.1900
He spends a lot of his childhood and youth at his relatives in the country-side, in and nearby the settlement of Szigetbecse.
“When I was six years old, I was visiting my relatives where I found magazines illustrated with beautiful old woodcuts. I fell in love with these deeply. I thought that later I would do things like those – and from then on, I looked at things as I photographed later.”
1909-1914
After the death of his father, he and his two brothers are taken into the custody of their mother’s brother. Upon completing his studies, his uncle gets him a job at the Budapest Commodity and Stock Exchange, although he already knows that he wants to ma
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