The images produced by Hungarian photographer Andre Kertesz are worth far more than the normal allotment from that trite “thousand word” adage. A new exhibition called “On Reading,” which is currently ...
I’m continuing my weekly series on noted photographers in the Getty’s collection with Andre Kertesz, a legend in fine-art photography circles. Kertesz was born in 1894 in Budapest, Hungary. He lived ...
André Kertész in the news André Kertész has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, Daily Art Magazine and HYPEBEAST. The most recent article is Two Free Events to Check out This Weekend at Capture ...
One of my favourite André Kertész photographs shows two young men sitting with their backs to a tree, each absorbed in a book. Both are wearing glasses; both use their thighs as a lectern; the one ...
Charles A. Hartman Fine Art has another fine exhibit of classic photography on view right, The Hungarian born Kertesz is one of the forerunners of the photojournalistic approach, though an ...
Andre Kertesz arrived in Paris in 1925, taking the photographs that made him a pioneer in photojournalism and pulled him into the mainstream of the art world in Europe. His candid pictures captured ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. André Kertész, said his colleague and compatriot Brassaï, “had two qualities that are essential to a great ...
New York skyline - André Kertész, 'Chimneys', 1943. An urchin on the streets of Manila; a demoiselle in a Parisian café, even a Trappist priest in his study – all were caught in the act by André ...
For an artist often described as 'the godfather of photojournalism', it seems like a surprising subject: people absorbed in newspapers and books, transported for a period from their everyday lives. So ...
Henri Cartier-Bresson said: ‘Each time André Kertész’s shutter clicks, I feel his heart beating.’ Now, the Hungarian artist who pioneered photojournalism, influencing Cartier-Bresson and Brassaï, is ...