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André Kertész was a key figure in expanding the language of modernist photography. He intuitively captured the poetry of modern urban life with its quiet, often overlooked incidents and comic, occasionally bizarre juxtapositions. By 1925, Kertész had arrived in Paris which was a magnet for aspiring artists such as Piet Mondrian and Constantin Brancusi who Kertész would befriend. István Beöthy was a fellow Hungarian émigré and a sculptor who would also fall into the same avant-garde circle as Kertész who all connected to the “new spirit.” It was in Beöthy’s studio where Kertész took the now iconic image, “Satiric Dancer” in 1926. The playful woman in the image is Magda Förstner. She was a Hungarian cabaret dancer and aspiring actress that Kertész had invited to the studio specifically for the shoot. Kertész recounted the situation decades later: “I said to her, ‘Do something with the spirit of the studio corner,’ and she started to move on the sofa. She just made a movement. I took only two photographs…People in motion are wonderful to photograph. No need to shoot a hundred rolls like people do today. It means catching the right moment. The moment when something changes into something else.” The image, designed to capture the “new spirit” now seems timeless in its appeal. It is heralded as one of the most successful and imaginative integrations of sculptural form, portraiture, and dynamic movement within the two-dimensional framework of the viewfinder. Henri Cartier-Bresson would later say about the photographer, “Whatever we have done, Kertész did first. We all owe something to Kertész,”
Satiric Dancer
gelatin silver print
1926
André Kertész (1894-1985)
(b. Hungary, d. NYC, USA)
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Dedicated to #AndreKertesz, the genius photographic artist, of Budapest, Paris, & New York City
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Dedicated to #AndreKertesz, the brilliant master photographic artist
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I own two books about Andre Kertesz already, but am still looking forward to this one by Patricia Albers.
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“Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow”
- T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land)
Hungarian-born American photographer André Kertész.
Washington Square Park
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Satiric Dancer
silver gelatin print
1926
Paris
André Kertész
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𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲́ 𝗞𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲́𝘀𝘇
2 Jul 1894 – 28 Sep 1985
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Photograph of swimming pool with a man underwater, his figure slightly distorted by the movement of the surface.
Nageur sous l'eau, Esztergom, Hongrie (Underwater Swimmer, Esztergom, Hungary) by André Kertész, 1917 (silver gelatin print)
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ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ, Washington Square, 1954
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ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ, Alone, Paris, 1930
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ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ, Washington Square at Night, 1954
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ANDRE KERTESZ, Champs Elysees, 1929
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somebody spoke and I went into a dream
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background photograph [portion] "Stairs at Montmartre" (1926) by #AndreKertesz
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ANDRE KERTESZ, Washington Square, 1954
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ANDRE KERTESZ, Tokyo, 1968
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#photography #blackandwhitephotography #ArtPhotography #newyork #art #mood #melancholy #minimalism #andrekertesz
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ANDRE KERTESZ, Lost Cloud, New York, 1937
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ANDRE KERTESZ, Stairs at Montmartre, Paris, 1926
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André Kertész (1894–1985) has been hailed as one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. Working intuitively, he captured the poetry of modern urban life with its quiet, often overlooked incidents and odd, occasionally comic, or even bizarre juxtapositions. He endeavored "to give meaning to everything" about him with his camera, "to make photographs as by reflection in a mirror, unmanipulated and direct as in life." Combining this seemingly artless spontaneity with a sophisticated understanding of composition, Kertész created a purely photographic idiom that celebrates direct observation of the everyday. Neither a surrealist, nor a strict photojournalist, he nevertheless infused his best images with strong tenets of both. "You don't see" the things you photograph, he explained, "you feel them." Born Kertész Andor in Budapest, he received his first camera in 1912 and immediately began to make intimate portraits of family and friends, studies of the Hungarian countryside, and scenes of daily life behind the battle lines of World War I. Seeking to make a living through photography, he moved in 1925 to Paris, where he established a successful career as a photojournalist. Buoyed by this accomplishment and inspired by the vibrant artistic community of the French capital, he created some of the most intriguing and celebrated images of the period. In 1936 Kertész relocated to New York in order to further his career. Captivated by the rich visual spectacle of the city and awed by its scale, he used the camera to record both his fascination with, and sense of alienation from, his new surroundings. The images attest to a complicated personal history borne through the political upheavals of two wars and life in three countries. He died at age ninety-one. This exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Kertész's rich and varied career.
Satiric Dancer
silver gelatin print
1926
Paris
André Kertész
#andrekertesz #photography #art #satiricdancer #dated1926 #paris
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André Kertész was born in Budapest in 1894 and studied at the Academy of Commerce until he bought his first camera in 1912. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I, and in 1925 had one of his photographs published on the cover of Erdekes Ujsay. That same year, he moved to Paris, where he did freelance work for many European publications, including Vu, Le Matin, Frankfurter Illustrierte, Die Photographie, La Nazione Firenze, and The Times of London. He bought his first 35-millimeter camera, a Leica, in 1928, and his innovative work with it on the streets of Paris was extremely influential. In 1936, he came to the United States, and began freelancing for Collier's, Harper's Bazaar, and House & Garden, among other mass-circulation magazines. Eventually, and until 1962, he worked under contract to Condé Nast. Between 1963 and his death, his independently produced photographs became more widely accessible, and Kertész became one of the most respected photographers in America. His work was the subject of many publications and exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and at the Museum of Modern Art, and a major retrospective, Of Paris and New York, at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among his many honors and awards were a Guggenheim Fellowship and admission to the French Legion of Honor. Kertész's work had widespread and diverse effects on many photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and Brassaï, who counted him as a mentor during the late 1920s and early 1930s. His personal work in the 1960s and 1970s inspired countless other contemporary photographers. Kertész combined a photojournalistic interest in movement and gesture with a formalist concern for abstract shapes; hence his work has historical significance in all areas of postwar photography.
The Fortune Teller
photograph, silver gelatin print
1929
André Kertész
(1894-1985)
#andrekertesz #photography #thefortuneteller #dated1929 #art
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