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André Kertész (born Andor Kertész , July 2nd 1894, Budapest, Hungary - September 28th 1985, New York) was a Photographe of American nationality and Hungarian origin .

Biography

He grows in an environment gypsy. He very early dreams to become photographer. In 1905, his/her father dies and he is entrusted to a tutor who works with the Stock Exchange of Budapest, where he itself will be employed of 1912 with 1914, after having followed studies to the Academy of trade of the city.

In 1913, it buys its first camera: a ICA.

In 1914, it is useful in the Austro-Hungarian army. It carries out then many Photographie S, testifying to its experiments of war. It publishes its first photographs in a newspaper and gains a contest of magazine, but the majority of its negative and its plates are destroyed during the Hungarian revolution of 1918.

After the war it decides to become photographer and arrives at Paris in 1923, after having received the diploma of honor of the Hungarian Company of photography. It is there that it changes its first name for André , French equivalent of Andor .

Of 1925 with 1935, it sells pullings to live and works with various magazines. As of 1927, it carries out its first exposures and collaborates in the review Bifur in 1928. It helps Brassaï in its beginnings in photography. Although it is close to the Surréalistes and the Dada, it does not belong to any movement.

This year, it buys a Leica; it will be the first to use one of them professionally. It carries out a report for Considering.

In 1932 it exposes an important whole of its photographs in the New-yorkaise gallery of Julien Levy.

In 1933, it meets his wife Elizabeth Sali with whom it leaves for New York in 1936 to complete a work for Keystone. Because of Second world war, it remains in New York, and collaborates of 1937 in 1949 with various newspapers. As he refuses to adapt his style, its reports, misunderstood, are not published.

In 1944, it is naturalized American. It carries out some publications and contracts, but in 1963, after being falls ill, it breaks all its contracts and does not make any more photography but by pleasure.

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