Aux Morts Memorial, Paris

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Aux Morts Memorial, Paris

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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
1984
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
740a9fae-5eb7-40da-b091-a74857cd86f9

A small group of people standing in front of an Aux Morts memorial in Père Lachaise cemetery. The monument features two sculptures of nude figures in a rectangular niche. Relief sculptures of kneeling figures, apparently in mourning, flank either side of the niche.

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