Distortion # 34, Paris, 1933

Distortion # 34, Paris, 1933Artwork Info About the Artist 1933 Gelatin silver print Signed, titled, and dated, in pencil, au verso Estate # 3 0134 04 2 0 05 Unframed Printed circa 1975 Provenance: Direct from the Estate of Andr Kertsz, New York In 1925, Andr moved to Paris to fulfill his dream of pursuing a career as a photographer. After a short period of both artistic and personal struggle, his pioneering vision, brought him great success. His approach to the medium helped to

showing empathy for his subjects but bearing witness to their struggle

he had a retrospective exhibition at Confederation Centre Museum and later that year was a major presence in the Marilyn Monroe exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum

Bates College Museum of Art in Lewiston

Estate #V60

An avid collector of 19th-century photographs

including a major forty-year retrospective publication

the Theo Westenberger Award of the Creative Capital Foundation (2012)

His works are included in the permanent collections of over fifty museums throughout the United States and Europe

I wanted to find a way to engage with historical images without either romanticizing or dismissing them

and she photographed them nude in the landscape of the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern California

Estate # SX 1235

Gertrude’s/LOT (2011)