Description
The first comprehensive study of these rare, influential objects, documenting a formative moment in the noted photographer's early career
This elegant book unites all of the known carte postale prints by the photographer Andre Kertesz (1894-1985), including portraits, views of Paris, careful studio scenes, and exquisitely simple still lifes. Essays shed new light on the artist's most acclaimed images; themes of materiality, exile, and communication; his illustrious and bohemian social circle; and the changing identity of art photography. Playful yet refined, the book's design reflects the spirit of 1920s Paris while underscoring the modernity of the catalogue's more than 250 illustrated works. Kertesz made his rigorously composed prints on inexpensive but lush postcard stock, sharing them with friends and sending them back to family in Hungary. The works reveal the artist learning his craft as he encountered an international group of modernists-including Piet Mondrian, Fernand Leger, and Joseph Csaky-in the interwar metropolis. Prized by collectors as well as by Kertesz himself, the cartes postales influenced his compositions and the intimate scale of his picture making for decades.
Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
(October 2, 2021-January 17, 2022)
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
(February 18-May 29, 2022)
About the Author
Elizabeth Siegel is curator of photography and media at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Book Information
ISBN 9780300260038
Author Elizabeth Siegel
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher Art Institute of Chicago
This elegant book unites all of the known carte postale prints by the photographer Andre Kertesz (1894-1985), including portraits, views of Paris, careful studio scenes, and exquisitely simple still lifes. Essays shed new light on the artist's most acclaimed images; themes of materiality, exile, and communication; his illustrious and bohemian social circle; and the changing identity of art photography. Playful yet refined, the book's design reflects the spirit of 1920s Paris while underscoring the modernity of the catalogue's more than 250 illustrated works. Kertesz made his rigorously composed prints on inexpensive but lush postcard stock, sharing them with friends and sending them back to family in Hungary. The works reveal the artist learning his craft as he encountered an international group of modernists-including Piet Mondrian, Fernand Leger, and Joseph Csaky-in the interwar metropolis. Prized by collectors as well as by Kertesz himself, the cartes postales influenced his compositions and the intimate scale of his picture making for decades.
Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition Schedule:
(October 2, 2021-January 17, 2022)
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
(February 18-May 29, 2022)
About the Author
Elizabeth Siegel is curator of photography and media at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Book Information
ISBN 9780300260038
Author Elizabeth Siegel
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher Art Institute of Chicago
