André Kertész (1894-1985)

Photographer. Kertész was born in Budapest in 1894, then moved to Paris in 1925, where his first large exhibition was held at the Galerie Au Sacre du Printemps in 1927. His photographs were published in such international magazines as Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, Vogue, and L’Art vivant, and in 1929, he took part in the show Film und Foto in Stuttgart as a French photographer. In 1936, he submitted an appeal for an American visa and began working in New York, in 1964, his solo show opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, curated by John Szarkowski. Kertész had purchased a Leica camera back in Paris, which due to its small size allowed quick, hand-held photography. With this working method, he developed his own genre of photojournalism, and he is considered one of the most important representatives of subjective documentary photography.