André Kertész is a key figure in the history of photography and teacher of countless photographers. His work sums up an ethic and an aesthetic, picking up on and preceding various avant-garde currents even while remaining profoundly linked to humanistic values.
Born in Budapest (Hungary), André Kertész took his first photographs in 1912. He photographed his friends, his family and the Hungarian countryside before serving as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army.
Kertész settled in Paris in 1925. In Montparnasse he met Hungarian artists and many literary and artistic personalities (Mondrian, Eisenstein, Chagall, Calder, Zadkine, Tzara, Colette).
André Kertész is a key figure in the history of photography and teacher of countless photographers. His work sums up an ethic and an aesthetic, picking up on and preceding various avant-garde currents even while remaining profoundly linked to humanistic values.
Born in Budapest (Hungary), André Kertész took his first photographs in 1912. He photographed his friends, his family and the Hungarian countryside before serving as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army.
Kertész settled in Paris in 1925. In Montparnasse he met Hungarian artists and many literary and artistic personalities (Mondrian, Eisenstein, Chagall, Calder, Zadkine, Tzara, Colette).