Gypsy Camp

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Gypsy Camp

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André Kertész

American Photographer · 1894–1985

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> [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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Date: about 1933
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

A woman sits on an upturned basket as she tends food on an outside stove in a gypsy encampment near Paris. Behind her is a traditional horse-drawn vardo. Chickens, dogs, and a horse roam the camp.

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