The images produced by Hungarian photographer Andre Kertesz are worth far more than the normal allotment from that trite “thousand word” adage. A new exhibition called “On Reading,” which is currently ...
I’m continuing my weekly series on noted photographers in the Getty’s collection with Andre Kertesz, a legend in fine-art photography circles. Kertesz was born in 1894 in Budapest, Hungary. He lived ...
It goes without saying, of course, that Osgood tops my list of favorite photographers, a list that also would include many of the fine “shooters” who work for this newspaper. But I would have dumped ...
The death of Henri Cartier-Bresson in August at the age of 95 marked the end of an era. Cartier-Bresson was the last of the generation that in the '20s and '30s pioneered the candid and often lyrical ...
Charles A. Hartman Fine Art has another fine exhibit of classic photography on view right, The Hungarian born Kertesz is one of the forerunners of the photojournalistic approach, though an ...
For an artist often described as 'the godfather of photojournalism', it seems like a surprising subject: people absorbed in newspapers and books, transported for a period from their everyday lives. So ...
Henri Cartier-Bresson said: ‘Each time André Kertész’s shutter clicks, I feel his heart beating.’ Now, the Hungarian artist who pioneered photojournalism, influencing Cartier-Bresson and Brassaï, is ...
‘André Kertész: Postcards From Paris” at the Art Institute of Chicago may be, inch-for-inch, the most exquisite photography show in America at the moment. An intensive perusal of the years 1925-28, ...
New York skyline - André Kertész, 'Chimneys', 1943. An urchin on the streets of Manila; a demoiselle in a Parisian café, even a Trappist priest in his study – all were caught in the act by André ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. André Kertész, said his colleague and compatriot Brassaï, “had two qualities that are essential to a great ...
The photographer’s images of Washington Square Park revealed, with affection and longing, a Hungarian émigré who was an outsider in his adopted land. By David Gonzalez Perched inside his apartment 12 ...