Local photographer and teacher Tim Poly offers a close up look at the work of Andre Kertész on Tuesday, Jan 10th at 12 noon, at the Academy Art Museum. This is the last week to view the photography show, Andre Kertesz, On Reading – which is open through Sunday, Jan. 15th.
Born in Hungary, Kertész did important work in Hungary, France and the US. Yet in his later life André Kertész said: “My Hungarian is bad, my French is bad, my English is bad – my only vocabulary is photography.” Come discover how Kertész developed his visual voice. Explore his creative process as he laid the foundation for photo essay. Find out the secret to the way he always seemed to be in the right place at the right time to make a stunning photograph. And learn why the images in On Reading are so remarkable.
Poly offers a quote from the book “The Great Escape” by Kati Marton regarding how Kertész thought about his photography:
“He discovered that the camera was a perfect instrument for self-exploration. ‘I look for the poetic in everything’, he wrote in his diary in January 1912. A few weeks later, on a trip to a small town in northern Hungary, he wrote, ‘Everything is so enchantingly ancient. I would like to go back there during the summer, but with a camera. What great pictures I could take. All filled with poetry”.
For more information, click here, or call the Academy Art Museum at 410-822-2787.
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