E. Csorba Csilla: A kamera poétája. Adré Kertész-fotó a Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum gyűjteményeiből (Budapest, 2019)
E. Csorba Csilla: A kamera poétája. André Kertész fotói a Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum gyűjteményeiben / Csilla E. Csorba: The Poet of the Camera Photographs by André Kertész in the Collections of the Petőfi Literary Museum
In 1928 Kertész bought a new camera, a Leica, which excellently served his quick changes, light movements, and his spontaneous reflections. Fifteen of his photographs were shown at the avant-garde exhibition "Salon de I’Escalier” at Comédie des Champs-Élysées. On 27 October 1928 he married Rózsi Klein who studied art both in Budapest and Paris. Under the influence of her husband, she chose photography as her career and became a prominent photographer using the name Rogi André. In Paris, she photographed prominent artists, authors, painters, and architects, including Matisse, Miro, Mondrian, Braque, Paul Éluard, André Breton, Picasso, Derain, Léger and others.18 In 1928 they moved to 75 Boulevard du Montparnasse, but their marriage did not last. They divorced in 1932. Rogi André appears in several of Kertész’s photographs and her drawing of her husband was published as a supplement to an article by György Bölöni in 1930.19 His photographs were published in a number of important German and French journals. In 1933 his album Enfants was published and in 1934 his album Paris vu par Andre Kertész (Paris Seen by André Kertész) with an introduction by writer Pierre Mac Orlan came out. German museums purchased his works, he participated (as a French artist) in several French and international exhibitions. He had made it. “Paris, calming restlessness” (Endre Ady) Endre Ady met György Bölöni, who had already worked as a journalist in Paris for a year, during his first trip to the French capital in 1904. After his arrival, Lajos Ady asked his fellow countryman Bölöni in a letter to take care of his brother. Until 1911, the poet travelled to Paris for shorter or longer periods on seven occasions. During those times, Bölöni and his partner, Itóka, who later became his wife, were Ady’s loyal friends, coping with the storms in his life and deepening his experience of Paris. Ady’s days in Paris, the relationship of fluctuating intensity between Léda, Ödön Diósy, Ady, Itóka and Bölöni are described colourfully in Bölöni’s and Itóka’s correspondence and diaries.20 Besides Diósy and his wife Léda, the Bölönis played an important role in 35
