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Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates
Creator
André KertészAmerican Photographer · 1894–1985
All works by this person →> [T]he moment always dictates in my work....Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see...I see a situation and I know that it's right. > > --André Kertész André Kertész bought his first camera and made his first photograph while working as a clerk at the Budapest stock exchange in 1912. After years of amateur snapshot photography in his native Hungary, he moved to Paris in 1925 and began
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- 1929
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 1c69fb0f-6d85-4682-a8d8-b8927a94097d
> André Kertész was fascinated by decontextualized legs. "Peg Leg" Bates was a dancer who performed with an American jazz group that visited Paris in 1929. The other pictures in this series show Bates performing, while this photograph removes him completely from his public context to a completely private and aestheticized one. > > See also [84.XM.193.43](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/55776/andre-kertesz-legs-paris-american-negative-1925-print-1930s/) and [86.XM.706.32](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/55883/andre-kertesz-artificial-leg-paris-american-1927/) for other perspectives of decontextualized legs by Kertész. > > Adapted from *André Kertész*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum by Weston Naef (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1994), 64. ©1994, J. Paul Getty Museum.
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