André Kertész

Born in Budapest, the photographer André Kertész had an exceptional eye for formal composition and a rare sensitivity to the poetics of the everyday. He began taking pictures in 1912, continuing during his military service in World War I, and in 1925, he moved to Paris to work as a freelance photographer. Kertész often photographed his immediate environment, finding beauty in the quotidian scenes of Parisian street life. In 1936, he moved to New York, where he worked for several mass-circulated magazines. Kertész’s work was the subject of numerous exhibitions in his lifetime, including solo shows at the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, and, in New York, both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.