André Kertész

Beneath the surface mood

A master of early 20th-century photography is given his biggest retrospective

Nov 25th 2010 | from PRINT EDITION

IN A remarkable, if chequered career spanning seven decades, André Kertész pioneered modern photography. Hovering between abstraction, constructivism and surrealism, yet avoiding any specific avant-garde movement, Kertész, a Hungarian-born émigré, was guided by a personal yet rigorous aesthetic. A new travelling show of 300 images, that begins at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, combines a mastery of shadow and light and eye for geometric shapes with a poetic yet unsentimental vision of life. The largest retrospective since the photographer’s death in 1985, it reveals like no show has done before the power of Kertész’s work.

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“André Kertész” is at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, until February 6th 2011 before moving to the Winterthur Fotomuseum, Zurich, from February 26th until May 15th, the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, from June 11th until September 11th and the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, from September 30th until December 31st