André Kertész | 1920’s-1980’s

Exhibition Dates: June 30 - August 27          

Amateur period? I regard myself as an amateur today, and I hope that’s what I will stay until the end of my life. Because I’m forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.

              André Kertész, 1963

Twenty years after his death in 1985, it appears that André Kertész (b. Hungary, 1894) has reached the level of fame that he sought throughout his lifetime. There is no question that he is one of the most influential and well-respected photographers of the 20^th century, and if one wants proof, they need look no further than the retrospective exhibition that opened on February 2, 2005 at the National Gallery in Washington D.C. The beauty of this exhibition lies in the curators’ approach of proportional representation of prints from different periods in his career.

Since 2003, we have been privileged to represent the Estate of André Kertész. As one of 3 such dealers we have access to an extensive array of prints from throughout Kertész’s career. In the spirit of the National Gallery show, our exhibition is a retrospective drawn from the different periods of Kertész’s photographic life. It begins in Hungary, where he lived until 1925, following through Paris (1925-1936), and finally to New York, where he lived from 1936 until his death. Utilizing both vintage and estate prints, we are celebrating the beauty, the genius, and the pathos of man who, time after time, captured in images what couldn’t be articulated in words.