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 Paris, Kertész lives in Montparnasse. Since when? It would be quite difficult to say because he belongs to the post-war development of this artists' neighbourhood. Just as the coffee houses and galleries have grown and enlarged, so artists have turned from obscurity to being prominent and noted. The same has happened to Kertész. He has become known and famous at the same time as Montparnasse.” Thus Bölöni begins his article Kertész, a sötét kamara varázslója (Kertész, Magician of the Darkroom). As he remembers, he was introduced to Kertész by Tihanyi and after his initial success Bölöni became Kertész’s enthusiastic fan. The critic Bölöni discovered the essence of Kertész’s art with flair - "he can develop the motifs of a plate, a spoon, and three cubes of sugar in a picture the way only the greatest of painters can” - and anticipated his leading position in the art world besides French filmmakers. Kertész was an enthusiastic partner in illustrating his book. “These days Kertész is beginning to be involved in wider subject matters,” he writes. “Included is one of his favourite plans whereby precisely with me [...] Kertész would cover all the memories that can be discovered in Ady’s Parisian life and can be conveyed with images.”29 Kertész probably took photographs for The Real Ady from the autumn of 1930 to the beginning of 1934, since Bölöni wrote the foreword and finished the volume in September 1934.30 He selected 16 pictures from Kertész’s photographs which were presumably not all photos he instructed the artist to take. Far more must have been taken, indicated by the fact that other Paris-themed photos were acquired by PIM. The full series, which is owned by the Petőfi Literary Museum thanks to György Bölöni, has never been exhibited in full as far as we know. The photographs were described by Károly Kineses and Magdolna Kolta in 2005.31 Dating the photographs in the Ady series is different in various publications, we have accepted the designation of the above authors as valid, so presumably the one with the title ‘‘As Ady’s poem was written on the Parisian coffee house table", an arranged still life today regarded as iconic, was taken in 1932, while the other city, building, street and genre photographs in Ady’s footsteps were taken in 1933. The photographer’s stamp “Photo André Kertész 32 bis rue du Cotentin, Paris XV Copyright by” can be seen on the versos of the vintage photographs. BÖLÖNI GYÖRGY AZ IGAZI ADY CÍMŰ KÖNYVÉNEK ELŐFIZETÉSI FELHÍVÁSA, PÁRIZS, 1934 / CALL FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE VOLUME THE REAL ADY BY GYÖRGY BÖLÖNI, PARIS, 1934 PIM, ANY. 73.23/A 43
