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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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- 1915
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 99bcb70b-7218-4f3b-848c-e0fbb68c178b
> For André Kertész in 1915, photography was little more than a self-taught hobby that he had been pursuing on weekends for about three years; it was a diversion from his weekday job at the Budapest stock exchange. A handful of the pictures created when he was between nineteen and twenty-one years old show signs of artistic aptitude. Despite these early indications of extraordinary talent, however, Kertész did not decide to make photography his life's work until a decade later. Here we see an acquaintance named Jacob Lieberman romancing his fiancée on an outing to Pest's Nepliget Park a few months before their marriage. The tender emotions projected by the subjects are balanced by the formal authority of the composition. > > Adapted from *André Kertész*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum by Weston Naef (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1994), 10. ©1994, J. Paul Getty Museum.
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