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Kertesz ?Melancholic Tulip ? gallery poster #1732761

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Kertesz  ?Melancholic Tulip ? gallery poster #1732761
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Andre Kertesz (1894-1985) ?Melancholic Tulip ?, art gallery poster

André Kertész was a Hungary-born photographer distinguished by haunting composition in his photographs and was also a progenitor of the photo essay. Kertész is now recognized as one of the seminal figures of photojournalism.
Born in Budapest, the son of a bookseller, Kertész taught himself how to use a camera and, as part of the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I, had his first photos published. Even in 1914 the influential style for which he became known was distinctive and mature.
After the war, Kertész emigrated to Paris in 1925, changed his first name from Andor, and became acquainted with members of the Dada movement. One of them dubbed André Kertész "Brother Seeing Eye"; an allusion to a medieval monastery where all the monks were blind except one. His greatest journalistic collaboration was with French editor Lucien Vogel, who ran his photographs without explanatory prose.
By the mid-1970s he was showing his work in galleries all over the world. He continued working very productively into old age, and was experimenting with instant Polaroid photography shortly before he died.
This is a gallery exhibition poster from 1981 advertising a display of Kertesz?s photography in Canada. It would make a great addition to any poster collection, especially a gallery poster collection. Being a gallery poster means that there were very few of these printed. This poster is framed in a beautiful silver trimmed black ...
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<tr><td>Condition:excellent</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Maker:Andre Kertesz </td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:28</td></tr>

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<tr><td>Title:Kertesz ?Melancholic Tulip ? gallery poster</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230, USA</td></tr>
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