Andre Kertesz (1894-1985) was a great photographer born in Hungary. He made amazing contributions to photography in regards to the ideas of composition and the use of angles to form them. He is a leading figure of the photojournalist movement in the history of photography. He bought his first camera in 1912, it was an ICA box camera. Kertesz got his first photographs published in 1917 in a magazine during World War 1. At 20 he was sent to the front lines himself where he photographed in the trenches with a Goerz Tenax. In 1923 one of his photographs was selected by the Hungarian Amateur Photographers Association for the silver award, giving him widespread publicity. In 1933 he published his first book of photographs entitled 'Enfants'. Many of his most famous photographs were taken from his window of his apartment in Washington Square Park with a telephoto lens.
Oh! i talked about him too :D love the distorted photos of his *o*
ReplyDeleteI love his work. The fact that he worked from a distance in order to capture stranger's moments in their true form is nice. I want to try that some time.
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