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 many cases critics used the adjectives “poetic”, “literary” and “lyrical” for André Kertész’s photographs. Although he somewhat distanced himself from these, he nevertheless did not reject the adjectives. He remained the poet of the camera, photographed what he saw and felt, and what he saw transformed itself and became poetic in his images. A lesser-known photograph of his, Window with Young Woman, illustrates this lyrical, self-confessional approach. An attractive, young woman places a glass sphere in the middle of the shop window with a fine hand movement. The glass of the window breaks up the space to several planes and the sphere sucks in, breaks and distorts the scene. He photographed several images reflected in a sphere virtually at the same time when he made his series Distortions. These experiments of his are

ÖNARCKÉP ÉLŐMASZKKAL / SELF-PORTRAIT WITH LIVE MASK, NEW YORK, 1970 ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ KÉPESLAPJA BAJOMI LÁZÁR ENDRÉNEK, 1972 KARÁCSONYA / ANDRE KERTÉSZ’S POSTCARD TO ENDRE BAJOMI LÁZÁR, CHRISTMAS 1972 PIM, V. 5253/271

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