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Melancholic Tulip, New York
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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- 1939
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 4e54c8d1-adb7-49c5-9e61-057b5bcaf3df
> In New York, André Kertész returned to a practice he had begun back in Hungary of inscribing the exact date of each exposure on the protective sleeve of the negative. We know that this picture was made on February 10, 1939. This is a time of year when melancholy moods strike even normally happy and productive natures, and they struck Kertész particularly hard. Using a parabolic mirror that he had brought from Paris, Kertész created a distorted still life that is also a self-portrait of the artist as a wilted flower. > > Originally published in *André Kertész*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum by Weston Naef (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1994), 86. ©1994, J. Paul Getty Museum.
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