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Andre
Kertesz (Editions Hazan)
by Michel Frizot, Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq
Hardcover from Editions Hazan, Paris
ISBN: 0300167814
André Kertész (1894-1985) is one of the most original
and celebrated of photographers of the 20th century. He was a founder of
the modernist photography that originated in the European avant-garde movements
of the 1920s, and although his lifelong unwillingness to compromise his
independence and his creation of "photographic poetry" made him an almost
marginal figure for most of his life, his influence on the development
of photography, particularly photojournalism, during the middle years of
the century was profound.
This comprehensive book accompanies a major retrospective exhibition
of Kertész's work at Paris's Jeu de Paume Museum (also visiting
several other European venues including Winterthur, Berlin, and Budapest).
The text is organized around the three main periods of Kertész's
seventy-year-long career: Budapest, 1914-25; Paris, 1925-36; and New York,
1936-85. Each section of the text includes an illustrated historical analysis,
a portfolio of works, and notes on particular elements of Kertész's
style and practice. Many rare vintage and period prints produced under
the photographer's control are reproduced to highest standards in this
beautiful book, reflecting the visual quality of this exceptional body
of compelling and poetic images. |
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On
Reading
by André Kertész
Hardcover from W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393066568
This classic--both playful and poetic--is reissued with striking
new duotone reproductions.
André Kertész (1894-1985) was one of the most inventive,
influential, and prolific photographers in the medium's history. This small
volume, first published in 1971, became one of his signature works. Taken
between 1920 and 1970, these photographs capture people reading in many
parts of the world. Readers in every conceivable place--on rooftops, in
public parks, on crowded streets, waiting in the wings of the school play--are
caught in a deeply personal, yet universal, moment. Kertész's images
celebrate the absorptive power and pleasure of this solitary activity and
speak to readers everywhere. Fans of photography and literature alike will
welcome this reissue of this classic work that has long been out of print.
68 duotone photographs |
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Andre
Kertesz: His Life and Work
by Pierre Borhan
Paperback from Bulfinch
ISBN: 0821226487
This monograph presents a complete overview of the work of Hungarian
photograher Andre Kertesz (1894-1985), one of the masters of modern photography.
Author Pierre Borhan covers three essential periods of Kertesz's work:
Hungary (1912-1925), France (1925-1936) and the United States (1936-1985).
A full section is devoted to his famous "distortions" and another to his
colour works. Each section is prefaced by a critical text written by an
international specialist. This book is a work of reference and a source
of information, but is also a tribute to one of the masters of 20th-century
photography. |
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André
Kertész: The Early Years
by Andre Kertesz, Bruce Silverstein, Robert Gurbo
Hardcover from W. W. Norton
ISBN: 0393061604
André Kertész (1894-1985) was one of the most inventive,
influential, and prolific photographers in the medium's history.
His combination of Modernist vision and poetic wit defined a vocabulary
that generations of photographers have continued to use. Kertész's
iconic images of 1920s Paris, such as "Chez Mondrian" and "Satiric Dancer"
and his later images from New York "Melancholic Tulip," "Washington Square"
have seeped into contemporary culture, and yet Kertész maintained
that the real roots of his work were in Hungary. This book, the first completely
dedicated to Kertész's early Hungarian prints, offers a unique window
on the origins of genius. Ninety images, selected from more than 1,000
contact prints in the artist's estate, are meticulously reproduced to actual
size, revealing the explosive cultural context of early twentieth-century
Hungary. A treasured addition to any photography library, André
Kertész: The Early Years is a rare opportunity to witness the
beginnings of a great artist. 90 duotone photographs |
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Andre
Kertesz
by Sarah Greenough, Robert Gurbo, Sarah Kennel
Hardcover from Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691121141
In a career that spanned much of the twentieth century, Hungarian-born
photographer André Kertész (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, André Kertész
takes us through Kertész's years in Budapest, Paris, and New York.
Unlike other works on Kertész, it presents only vintage prints and
includes several seldom seen photographs from throughout his career.
Written by renowned art historian Sarah Greenough and Kertész
Foundation curator Robert Gurbo, André Kertész includes excerpts
from the photographer's previously unexamined journals and correspondence--documents
that prompted the authors to reexamine every period of Kertész's
life and work. They reflect on their findings in essays covering each of
the major phases in Kertész'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 Kertész 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.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:
National Gallery of Art, Washington
February 6-May 15, 2005
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
June 12-September 5, 2005
Hungarian photographer André Kertész eventually became
famous for his wryly poetic images of everyday life. But achieving that
distinction was a long slog, and Kertész--who emigrated to Paris
in 1925 and New York in 1936--struggled for decades in near-obscurity and
despair. Andre Kertész 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 life--haunting 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, Kertész 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 Kertész 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 sly--a
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 Kertész was in his late sixties. Fortunately, he lived
and worked for twenty more years, basking in the newly exalted status of
art photography. Andre Kertész serves as the catalog for
an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art (through May 15, ) that
travels to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (June 12-Sept. 5, ).
--Cathy Curtis |
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André
Kertész (Photofile)
Paperback from Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500410631
The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the
world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable
price.
Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards.
Each volume contains reproductions printed in superb duotone, together
with a critical introduction and a full bibliography.
André Kertész is one of the figures who shaped modern
photography. From the First World War onwards, his independent spirit led
him to practice an art based on spontaneity and sincerity, seeking out
the chance moments that "capture the true nature of things." Tender, nostalgic,
modest, he forged a new path for photography, a kind of poetic realism
that was neither forced nor showy. "I never document," he said. "I give
my own interpretation." 58 duotone photographs |
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Andre
Kertesz: The Polaroids
by André Kertész
Hardcover from W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393065642
A powerful collection of the luminous last work by one of the true
giants of twentieth-century photography.
After the death of his wife, André Kertész consoled himself
by taking up a new camera, the Polaroid SX70. As with earlier equipment,
he mastered the camera and produced a provocative body of work that both
honored his wife and lifted him out of depression.
Here Kertész dips into his reserves one last time, tapping new
people, ideas, and tools to generate a whole new body of work through which
he transforms from a broken man into a youthful artist. Taken in his apartment
just north of New York City's Washington Square, many of these photographs
were shot either from his window or in the windowsill. We see a fertile
mind at work, combining personal objects into striking still lifes set
against cityscape backgrounds, reflected and transformed in glass surfaces.
Almost entirely unpublished work, these photographs are a testament to
the genius of the photographer's eye as manifested in the simple Polaroid.
Duotone photographs throughout |
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Andre
Kertesz (Spezial Fotografie, Portfolio No. 31)
Paperback from Stern
ISBN: 3570194264
Working in a variety of modes, from portraits to still-lifes, from
nude distortions to photo-reportage, Andre Kertesz consistently captured
the moment and expressive details of his subjects. His enduring influence
affected world photography, particularly in France, where he was a mentor
to photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and Brassai.
With his career spanning 70 years, Andre Kertesz was arguably one of the
greatest masters of 20th-century photography. This volume presents his
work. |
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In
Focus: Andre Kertesz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
by Weston Naef
Paperback from J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: 0892362901
Hungarian-born André Kertész (1894-1985) was one of the
most influential and popular photographers of the twentieth century. This
volume presents for the first time selections from the Getty Museum's holdings
of Kertész's photographs, including work from his Budapest, Paris,
and New York periods. The book also offers an intimate look at Kertész
through a dialogue among four of the people who knew the artist best during
the last years of his life: Robert Gurbo, Curator of New York's André
and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation; David Travis, Curator of Photography
at the Art Institute; Sylvia Plachy, photographer; and the Getty's Curator
of Photographs, Weston Naef. The discussion was moderated by Charles Hagen,
writer and critic for the New York Times. |
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On
Reading
by Andre Kertesz
Paperback from Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 0140063099
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