Self-Portrait in artist's studio, New York

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Self-Portrait in artist's studio, New York

Creator

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
1984
Medium
Polaroid dye diffusion print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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The shadow a male figure seen in profile against a wall. There is the shadow of a small statue with a human figure in front of the shadow of the man.

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