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André Kertész
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Bill Jay, n.d., Andre Kertesz, [Photographers], Gelatin silver print, Provided by the artist - Bill Jay, LL/10106
André Kertész


Born: 1894, 2 July - Austria-Hungary, Budapest [now Hungary]
Died: 1985, 27 September
Gender: Male
Active: US
 
American photographer born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Bill Jay, n.d., Andre Kertesz, [Photographers], Gelatin silver print, Provided by the artist - Bill Jay, LL/10106
Image: LL/10106
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Gilles Walusinski, n.d., André Kertész and friends, Gelatin silver print, Galerie Agathe Gaillard, LL/37769
Image: LL/37769
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Salvatore Piermarini, n.d., André Kertész, Drawing, Provided by the artist - Salvatore Piermarini, LL/59250
Image: LL/59250
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Salvatore Piermarini, n.d., Portrait of André Kertész, Drawing, Provided by the artist - Salvatore Piermarini, LL/59141
Image: LL/59141
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André Kertész, 1927, Self Portrait, Gelatin silver print, Silverstein Photography, LL/311
Image: LL/311
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André Kertész, 1927 (taken) 1980 (ca, print), Self-Portrait, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81337
Image: LL/81337
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André Kertész, 1927, December, [Self portrait of André Kertész working in his darkroom], Photograph, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/111165
Image: LL/111165
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André Kertész, 1931, Elizabeth & Andre Kertesz, Paris, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81290
Image: LL/81290
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André Kertész, 1933 (ca), Self portrait of André Kertész taken while photographing his "Distortions" series, [Distortions], Gelatin silver print, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/61829
Image: LL/61829
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André Kertész, 1936, Press pass supplied by VU to André Kertész, Press pass, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/61589
Image: LL/61589
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Dan Budnik (American, born 1933), 1964, Kertesz, In His New York Studio, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81338
Image: LL/81338
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André Kertész, 1971, With Two Old Friends, Sziget-Becse, Hungary, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81289
Image: LL/81289
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David Moore, 1975, Andre Kertesz, photographer, New York, [100 Photographs, pl. 088], Gelatin silver print, David Moore Estate, LL/32111
Image: LL/32111
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Carl Uytterhaegen, 1976, André Kertész, Arles, France, Gelatin silver print, Provided by the artist - Carl Uytterhaegen, LL/15830
Image: LL/15830
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Norman Kulkin, 1978, Portrait of Andre Kertesz, Gelatin silver print, Provided by the artist - Norman Kulkin, LL/92916
Image: LL/92916
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Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, 1979, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Agathe Gaillard and André Kertész in Arles, Gelatin silver print, Galerie Agathe Gaillard, LL/37759
Image: LL/37759
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Tony Kelly, 1980, Portrait d'André Kertész, Gelatin silver print, Piasa, LL/46366
Image: LL/46366
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Yvette Troispoux, 1980, Agathe Gaillard with André Kertész, Gelatin silver print, Galerie Agathe Gaillard, LL/37762
Image: LL/37762
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Yvette Troispoux, 1980 (ca), André Kertész taking a photo of Agathe Gaillard, Gelatin silver print, Galerie Agathe Gaillard, LL/37764
Image: LL/37764
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Arnaud Maggs, 1980, 8 December, André Kertész, 144 Views, Gelatin silver prints (4), National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, LL/63711
Image: LL/63711
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Arnaud Maggs, 1980, 8 December (taken) 1981, 2 March (print), André Kertész, Detail 89, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, LL/63725
Image: LL/63725
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Vivienne Silver-Brody, 1981, André Kertész, New York, Gelatin silver print, Silver Print Gallery and Archive, LL/40768
Image: LL/40768
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Kurt Edward Fishback, 1982, Andre Kertész, Gelatin silver print, Provided by the artist - Kurt Edward Fishback, LL/38496
Image: LL/38496
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Abe Aronow (American, born 1940), 1984 (taken) 1994 (print), André Kertesz, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81128
Image: LL/81128
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By the late 1910s, Kertész was demonstrating the visual language of modernism with asymmetrical compositions, close-ups, distortions, reflections, and unusual points of view. He came to use a Leica to geometrically order the unexpected moments of everyday life with a life-affirming sensibility that favored a play between pattern and deep space. He made his living as a European photojournalist before immigrating to the United States. Kertész' joyous "Leica spirit," the new small camera mentality, combined the formal design elements of De Stijl with a natural intuition to extract poetic "rest-stops" from the flow of time that alter expectations about common occurrences and objects. His spontaneous vision revealed a sweet, lyrical truth, celebrating the splendor of life and the pleasure of sight. Inspired Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Robert Capa.
 
(Author: RH)
 
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409] (Used with permission)
 
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