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Andre Kertesz | 
 enlarge | Authors: Sarah Greenough, Robert Gurbo, Sarah Kennel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 477897
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.6
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 9.7 x 1.5
ISBN: 0691121141
Dewey Decimal Number: 770.92
EAN: 9780691121147
ASIN: 0691121141
Publication Date: January 24, 2005
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Hungarian photographer Andre Kertesz eventually became famous for his wryly poetic images of everyday life. But achieving that distinction was a long slog, and Kertesz--who emigrated to Paris in 1925 and New York in 1936--struggled for decades in near-obscurity and despair. Andre Kertesz traces the artist's career with an engaging text and 250 exquisitely reproduced black-and-white photographs that span his long career. Throughout, he used his camera to create a visual diary of his lifehaunting images suffused with a loner's sensibility. As a young man imbued with the romantic ideals of Hungarian nationalism, he photographed his handsome brother Jeno as Icarus, his exultant body silhouetted against the sky. Unable to find work after returning from the battlefields of World War I, Kertesz tried his luck in Paris. It was the best move of his life. The City of Light was hungry for photographers to fill the new illustrated magazines. Avant-garde painters and sculptors opened up a new world of experimentation that prompted Kertesz to photograph a series of female nudes seen in a funhouse mirror. And the new, lightweight Leica camera enabled him to snap scenes on the slya bum inspecting his toes on the banks of the Seine or a legless flower seller trying to tempt a passerby. After marrying his Hungarian girlfriend, he sailed to New York, lured by the promise of steady work as a fashion photographer and a climate more hospitable to a Jewish artist. But the agency job didn't suit him, and his emotional style had little appeal for American magazines. In photographs like "Lost Cloud"--a tiny white puff suspended next to the impersonal face of a skyscraper--he mirrored his own sense of dislocation. In succeeding years, he would make classic photographs of the city, including "Washington Square," an elegant aerial view of a lone pedestrian in a snowy landscape of bare branches and benches. Major recognition finally came in the early 1960s, when Kertesz was in his late sixties. Fortunately, he lived and worked for twenty more years, basking in the newly exalted status of art photography. Andre Kertesz serves as the catalog for an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art (through May 15, 2005) that travels to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (June 12-Sept. 5, 2005). Cathy Curtis
Product Description
In a career that spanned much of the twentieth century, Hungarian-born photographer Andre Kertesz (1894-1985) created deceptively simple yet compelling and poetic photographs. This book presents approximately 120 of these striking images as well as previously unpublished archival material that sheds important light on the artist and his work. Like the exhibition it accompanies, Andre Kertesz takes us through Kertesz's years in Budapest, Paris, and New York. Unlike other works on Kertesz, it presents only vintage prints and includes several seldom seen photographs from throughout his career. Written by renowned art historian Sarah Greenough and Kertesz Foundation curator Robert Gurbo, Andre Kertesz includes excerpts from the photographer's previously unexamined journals and correspondence--documents that prompted the authors to reexamine every period of Kertesz's life and work. They reflect on their findings in essays covering each of the major phases in Kertesz's career. While the book includes examples of the artist's most important photographs, including Chez Mondrian, The Satiric Dancer, and The Eiffel Tower, it also focuses on the intensely autobiographical nature of his work. It elegantly demonstrates the ways in which Kertesz injected his persona, both literally and metaphorically, into his work. Accompanying the book's essays and exquisite tritone reproductions of his photographs are an illustrated chronology that corrects many previous errors, a comprehensive bibliography, and selections of previously unpublished writings by the photographer. June 12-September 5, 2005
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A Masterpiece Presentation on a Great Artist February 10, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have seen recently some of the master images made by Andre Kertesz at the Paul Getty Museum. The quality and presentation of the images in this book are as close as you can view the original prints. The text in the book effectively illuminates and enhance each image. I strongly recommend this book.
Andre Kertesz March 14, 2006
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is a superb collection and a true tribute to this incredible photographer.
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