Andre Kertesz: Postcards from Paris by Siegel, Elizabeth

Andre Kertesz: Postcards from Paris

The first comprehensive study of these rare, influential objects, documenting a formative moment in the noted photographer's...
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Author: Elizabeth Siegel
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Andre Kertesz: Postcards from Paris by Siegel, Elizabeth

Andre Kertesz: Postcards from Paris

$117.55

Andre Kertesz: Postcards from Paris

$117.55
Author: Elizabeth Siegel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The first comprehensive study of these rare, influential objects, documenting a formative moment in the noted photographer's early career

This elegant book unites all of the known carte postale prints by the photographer André Kertész (1894-1985), including portraits, views of Paris, careful studio scenes, and exquisitely simple still lifes. Essays shed new light on the artist's most acclaimed images; themes of materiality, exile, and communication; his illustrious and bohemian social circle; and the changing identity of art photography. Playful yet refined, the book's design reflects the spirit of 1920s Paris while underscoring the modernity of the catalogue's more than 250 illustrated works. Kertész made his rigorously composed prints on inexpensive but lush postcard stock, sharing them with friends and sending them back to family in Hungary. The works reveal the artist learning his craft as he encountered an international group of modernists--including Piet Mondrian, Fernand Léger, and Joseph Csáky--in the interwar metropolis. Prized by collectors as well as by Kertész himself, the cartes postales influenced his compositions and the intimate scale of his picture making for decades.

Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago


Exhibition Schedule:

Art Institute of Chicago
(October 2, 2021-January 17, 2022)

High Museum of Art, Atlanta
(February 18-May 29, 2022)

Author: Elizabeth Siegel
Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.91lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.20w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780300260038


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2022

About the Author
Elizabeth Siegel is curator of photography and media at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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