Object Details
Artist
André Kertész
Date
1926
Medium
Gelatin silver print on carte-postale
Dimensions
Image / sheet (including border): 3 1/2 × 2 3/4 inches (8.9 × 7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Diann G. Mann, Class of 1966, and Thomas A. Mann, Class of 1964
Object
Number
2018.095.017
Kertész left Budapest for Paris in 1925. Although he lived in the French capital for over ten years(…)
Kertész left Budapest for Paris in 1925. Although he lived in the French capital for over ten years, he never mastered its language and stayed close to fellow Hungarian immigrants there, many of them painters, intellectuals, and photographers like him. Yet Kertész’s photographs of Paris—a close study of its traditions, places, and inhabitants—reveal an intimate experience of the city, and an intense sensitivity to its poetry and mystery. The small scale at which he sometimes worked during this period, contact printing on postcard stock in his rented room, heightens the enigmatic nature of the images. (“Celebrating Reunion at the Johnson,” text by Kate Addleman-Frankel and presented at the Johnson Museum May 25-July 28, 2019)
