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EVERYTHING IS PHOTOGRAPH : A LIFE OF ANDRE KERTESZ
Εκδότης OTHER PRESS , ISBN 9781590515099
Born in Budapest in 1894, Andre Kertész soared to star status in Jazz Age
Paris, tumbled into poverty and obscurity in wartime New York, slogged
through 14 years shooting for House & Garden, then improbably
reemerged into the spotlight with a 1964 retrospective at New York's
Museum of Modern Art. By the time of his death in 1985, he had
exhibited around the world, taken more than 100,000 images, and
steered the medium in new and vital directions: He was the first major
photographer to embrace the Leica, the camera now mythically linked to
street photography, and he pioneered subjective photojournalism,
publishing what is arguably the world's first great photo essay. Drawing
on dozens of interviews, previous scholarship, and deep archival
research, and interrogating the images themselves, Patricia Albers
retrieves aspects of Kertész's life that he and his pictures gloss over,
among them the ordeals of trench warfare, the impact of the Holocaust,
and the tale of his tangled romances.
EVERYTHING IS PHOTOGRAPH immerses readers in the heyday of a now
lost version of photography. Formally vigorous, emotionally rich, and
aesthetically charged, Kertész's images speak of the medium as a tool for
human connection, self-narration, self-invention, and inquiry about the
world, even as they project its mysteries.
Περίληψη
Born in Budapest in 1894, Andre Kertész soared to star status in Jazz Age
Paris, tumbled into poverty and obscurity in wartime New York, slogged
through 14 years shooting for House & Garden, then improbably
reemerged into the spotlight with a 1964 retrospective at New York's
Museum of Modern Art. By the time of his death in 1985, he had
exhibited around the world, taken more than 100,000 images, and
steered the medium in new and vital directions: He was the first major
photographer to embrace the Leica, the camera now mythically linked to
street photography, and he pioneered subjective photojournalism,
publishing what is arguably the world's first great photo essay. Drawing
on dozens of interviews, previous scholarship, and deep archival
research, and interrogating the images themselves, Patricia Albers
retrieves aspects of Kertész's life that he and his pictures gloss over,
among them the ordeals of trench warfare, the impact of the Holocaust,
and the tale of his tangled romances.
EVERYTHING IS PHOTOGRAPH immerses readers in the heyday of a now
lost version of photography. Formally vigorous, emotionally rich, and
aesthetically charged, Kertész's images speak of the medium as a tool for
human connection, self-narration, self-invention, and inquiry about the
world, even as they project its mysteries.
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Συγγραφέας Albers , Patricia
- Eκδότης OTHER PRESS
- ISBN 9781590515099
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100091360
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2026
- Σελίδες 592
- Διαστάσεις 23χ15
- Βάρος 1250 gr