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
years and no one could be monopolized during the event. Les Belles Perdrix had contacts with prestigious gastronomic societies and participated in the exhibition Exposition de la Table Franpaise held in 1930. Their members contributed to the success of a conference organised for the exhibition. Besides their role in promoting French cuisine, they were also prominent supporters of literature and the arts. They founded the Prix des Muses (The Prize of Muses) in 1929, supporting a representative of literature and another of the fine arts with 25,000 francs. André Kertész was presumably introduced to the society of women by Itóka Bölöni, who can be recognized in one of the photographs. It is quite possible that Itóka herself wanted to write an article to accompany Kertész’s images, because typed titles and explanatory texts can be read on the versos. When the series was taken, the favourite of the Romanian royal family, Héléne Vacaresco, a noted Romanian-French writer, was president of The Club of Beautiful Partridges. We have not yet been able to discover which printed medium commissioned Kertész to make the existing photographs of the Club, but we assume that the dinner portrayed in 1934 was made for the journal La France á Table. Soon after his arrival in Paris, Kertész had already made enquiries with various journals in order to place his photographs. By the end of the 1920s, due to his specific and individual way of seeing, he had become a popular illustrator with prominent magazines such as VU, Bifur, UHU, Berliner Illustrierte and Art et Médecine. In certain cases his photographs selected by editors were published separately from the articles and he was often commissioned to do a series or a report consisting of several pictures. His reportage made about the monks’ life in Soligny-la- Trappe proved to be so successful that three magazines published it. On several occasions Kertész developed close contacts with magazines with presentations of the French countryside, promoting tourism and gastronomic adventures. Fie was fond of travelling on these assignments. His reportage about Burgundy, the land of vine growers, was published in VU magazine in 1929.37 Fie regularly took photographs and report-like series for the periodical La France á Table and was engaged to illustrate the issues introducing Savoy, Burgundy and Lyon in 1934.38 These articles often included writings about the Les Belles Perdix and the successful events they organised. Apart from him, the occasional works by prominent photographers Germaine Krull and Laure Albin-Guillot were most often published in the periodical. 53
