E. Csorba Csilla: A kamera poétája. Adré Kertész-fotó a Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum gyűjteményeiből (Budapest, 2019)

Korniss Péter: André Kertész kötődései / Péter Korniss: André Kertész’s Attachments

When Kertész arrived in Paris he did not speak much French, but he soon felt at home. Hungarian artists helped and French artists accepted him. Undoubtedly, André Kertész’s gentle and congenial personality had much to do with that. Well-known and unknown artists, literary people and socialites can be found in his photographs. We can see the painter Lajos Tihanyi, who

ISMERETLEN / UNKNOWN: TIHANYI LAJOS ÉS ANDRE KERTÉSZ, PÁRIZS, 1920-AS ÉVEK MÁSODIK FELE / LAJOS TIHANYI AND ANDRE KERTÉSZ, PARIS, SECOND HALF OF THE 1920S PAPÍR, GYORSFÉNYKÉP / PAPER, INSTANT PHOTOGRAPH, 7 x 10,8 CM, PIM, F.4454

probably did the most for Kertész, and we can see Brassai, whose friendship would turn into lifelong hostility. The photos taken by György Bölöni for the book The Real Ady are also on display. Bölöni guided the photographer, but it was Kertész who had the eye. And now that so many locations visited by Ady in Paris can be seen, admittedly the "embellishing distance” enchants us. How could it not when goats are shepherded in a Parisian street in one of the photographs, as was done at the time of Ady. Yet Kertész took his photographs of these places a good few decades later, in the 1930s. That world has certainly gone!

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