[ back to story ]

Underwater Swimmer, Esztergom, 1917. From the Hungarian period (1894 – 1925), this image, considered today an icon, enters within Kertész’s research to develop his own language, far from the fashionable trends, that pushed him to experiment with night shots or staging his own brother Janö in cla...

Underwater Swimmer, Esztergom, 1917. From the Hungarian period (1894 – 1925), this image, considered today an icon, enters within Kertész’s research to develop his own language, far from the fashionable trends, that pushed him to experiment with night shots or staging his own brother Janö in cla...

André Kertész André Kertész André Kertész André Kertész André Kertész
Loading...
Click for next image
André Kertész Underwater Swimmer, Esztergom, 1917. From the Hungarian period (1894 – 1925), this image, considered today an icon, enters within Kertész’s research to develop his own language, far from the fashionable trends, that pushed him to experiment with night shots or staging his own brother Janö in cla... André Kertész Satiric Dancer, 1926. Having settled in Paris in 1925, Kertész would see many Hungarian artists living there. In the atelier of sculptor Étienne Beöthy he shot the portrait of the dancer Magda Förstner, laying on a couch, mimicking the pose of a sculpture standing on her left. Other pictures d... André Kertész Distortion n° 41, 1933. The series “distortion” produced in Paris around the 1930’s is one of the examples from Kertész’s production where his interest in experimentation and his playful sense are found once again. The feminine bodies turn into half abstract masses thank to the distorting mirro... André Kertész Washington Square, January 9, 1954. After a few difficult years at the beginning of his life in America, Kertész and his wife Elizabeth are given American nationality and move into an apartment in Washington Square. During these years he experiments with a telephoto lens and zoom, witness and o... André Kertész July 3, 1979. After the death of his wife Elizabeth in 1977, Kertész begins his interest in Polaroid. The series then produced goes back to the meditative atmosphere present in many of his past works, and can also be seen as a synthesis of his stylisict research. Shortly after, his work would...