Andre Kertesz: On Reading continues to tour
MoCP continues to loan 104 images from the permanent collection for the exhibition Andre Kertesz: On Reading, on view now through October 4, 2009 at The Photographer’s Gallery in London. This is the first time works from this series have been shown in the United Kingdom.
Pure and concise, Kertesz's images render emotionally-rooted everyday scenes and objects into striking geometric compositions.
A few images in the show:
Andre Kertesz. Esztergom, Hungary (three boys reading). 1915.
Andre Kertesz. New York (bug and book). 1969. MoCP permanent collection.
On Reading, a series of photographs taken by Kertesz in Romania, France, and the United States that spans his photographic career of over fifty years, illustrates the consistency and skill with which Kertesz has photographed in this style. In this collection, however, Kertesz's penchant for street photography figures more prominently. The carefully orchestrated images in the original book version of On Reading present views of humanity, architecture, and the absorptive power of reading as a universal pleasure. Through these poetic, and at times humorous, studies, Kertesz brings the solitary activity of reading to a new level, rife with humanistic touches.
Outside of On Reading, Kertesz's oeuvre includes a variety of images clearly, though not conspicuously, influenced by the surrealist and constructivist movements. Positioning his camera adjacent to curved mirrors like those found in carnival fun houses, he created a series of distorted nudes. Characteristic of his overall approach, these images subtly reflect classic studies of the human form as well as the more recent developments and ideas sustaining the avant-garde community.
-From the MoCP Collections site.
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