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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN-10
0300260032
ISBN-13
9780300260038
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7050033063
Product Key Features
Book Title
ANDRÉ Kertesz : Postcards from Paris
Author
Sarah Kennel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Photographers / Monographs, General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, History
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Photography
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
1in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.8in
Item Weight
46.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tr140
Reviews
"Representing a key period from the career of one of the great photographers, this volume will be valuable for serious students of 20th-century art."--F. W. Gleach, Choice