Andre Kertesz

Postcards from Paris

Elizabeth Siegel, Sarah Kennel, Sylvie Penichon

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Art Institute of Chicago
24 August 2021

History of Art & Design Styles; Individual photographers; Photographs: collections

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 André Kertész (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. Kertész 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 Léger, and Joseph Csáky—in the interwar metropolis. Prized by collectors as well as by Kertész himself, the cartes postales influenced his compositions and the intimate scale of his picture making for decades.

Contributions by: Sarah Kennel, Sylvie Penichon
Edited by: Elizabeth Siegel
Imprint: Art Institute of Chicago
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 260mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 1.304kg
ISBN: 9780300260038
ISBN 10: 0300260032
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 24 August 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabeth Siegel is curator of photography and media at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Reviews for Andre Kertesz: Postcards from Paris

""Representing a key period from the career of one of the great photographers, this volume will be valuable for serious students of 20th-century art.""--F. W. Gleach, Choice