André Kertész

Kertész, fotografo ungherese originario di Budapest, la prima macchina fotografica la acquisto nel 1912 dopo il diploma. Nel 1915 andò in guerra e fù li che con un piccola camera riuscì a riprendere molte scene di marce e vita di tricea, tralasciando le parti più crude. Costretto a tornare in patria per la convalescenza trascorre diversi anni a Budapest fotografando la famiglia, ma molte delle sue fotografie andranno perse nella rivoluzione del 1918.
Si trasferì a Parigi a causa della depressione post bellica in Ungheria, e li venne a contatto con molti personaggi e fotografi d'avanguardia come Germaine Krull, Robert Capa, Man Ray e Berenice Abbott. Lavorò con Henry Cartier-Bresson per la rivista VU (che influenzò l'americana LIFE) e partecipò alla prima mostra indipendente di fotografia: Salon de l'escalier.
Quando si trasferì a New York con la moglie attirato da nuove correnti artistiche, lavorò per diverse riviste, inclusa LIFE, prevalentemente da freelance.
Il suo lavoro ricevette numerosi riconoscimenti, e fù un modello per diversi artisti e fotografi suoi contemporanei. Dimostrò come tutto vale la pena di essere fotografato.
La strada fù il soggetto principale delle sue fotografie, ma non era interessato in eventi mondani o cronaca, quanto alla possibilità di mostrare attraverso i grafismi delle moderne metropoli la felicità silenziosa di un istante.

Kértesz is an Hungarian photographer who lived in Budapest. He had his first camera after the diploma in 1912, and when in 1915 he had to join the military life for the first world war he took lot of shoots of marches and life in the treches, trying to avoid the most cruel parts. Because of a man injury he had to retourn home for sometime where he could take pictures of his brother and mother. Most of them went lost during the revolution in 1918.
During the depression he moved to Paris, where the artistic scene was really rich and he could be close to artists and photographers d'avant-garde such as Germaine Krull, Robert Capa, Man Ray e Berenice Abbott. He worked with Henry Cartier-Bresson for the magazine VU (this one had a great influence on the american LIFE) and he took part to the first independent exbition called Salon de l'escalier.
When he finally moved to New York with his wife Elisabeth, he start working as freelance for different magazines, LIFE included, and they lived in the middle of different artistic currents of the period.
His work saw lots of awards and a prestige that spread worldwide. He has been a model for atirsts photographers and contemporaries. All' his life he tryed to demostrate and shaw how everything has got the right to be photographed and gain a sort of importance.
Streets were his principal subject, but anyway he wasn't interested in news or mondanities; he wanted the possibility of show through the lines of the modern metropolis, the happiness of an istant.