Andre Kertesz by Sarah Greenough

Andre Kertesz by Sarah Greenough

In a career that spanned much of the twentieth century, Hungarian-born photographer, Andre Kertesz (1894-1985) created deceptively simple yet compelling and poetic photographs. This book presents approximately 120 images as well as material that sheds important light on the artist and his work.

The age of the romantic sensibility in photography may be over, replaced by an age of ironyBut as Andre Kertesz demonstrates, its innocent charms remain beguiling. -- Andy Grundberg Washington Post People who know photography revere Andre Kertesz as one of the medium's great practitioners, a modernist innovator... But he never achieved the kind of popular name recognition that artists like Cartier-Cresson, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans and Ansel Adams did... [T]hat makes his retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Art here that much more wonderfully revelatory. The show was organized by Sarah Greenough, head of the museum's photography department, and it is accompanied by an excellent catalog that provides an unusually illuminating biography of the artist... What distinguishes Kertesz's work is not a particular visual style or signature subject matter, but its emotional resonance. Undoubtedly Kertesz was a great formalist, but in his most persuasive pictures, form is put to the service of feeling. -- Ken Johnson The New York Times A highly informative, thoughtful, and readable catalogue with excellent reproductions. -- Rex Weil ARTNews Andre Kertesz saw with his heart's eye. He was a small, primly handsome Hungarian with a diaphanous vision--his camera did not so much peel away veils of reality as lay on a faint, pellucid veil of aesthetic contemplation... [A]s the detail-rich essays in Andre Kertesz by Sarah Greenough, Robert Gurbo and Sarah Kennel make clear, he was a deeply aware man. -- David Elliott San Diego Union-Tribune

Sarah Greenough is curator and head of the Department of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art. Robert Gurbo is curator of the Kertesz Foundation in New York. Sarah Kennel is research associate at the National Gallery of Art.

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ISBN 13	9780691121147
ISBN 10	0691121141
Title	Andre Kertesz
Author	Sarah Greenough
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Year published	2005-02-13
Number of pages	272
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