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Woman Writing on Street, Little Girl Standing by Watching
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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- October 19, 1962
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- cf4c75ec-defa-4761-bbb2-1a223abb2094
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A woman kneeling on the sidewalk and writing in the street with chalk. A young girl in a striped shirt is standing beside her. The street is already covered in chalk hearts and words.
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