In Zadkine's Studio, Paris
1926, printed 1981
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 24.6 × 18.8 cm (9 11/16 × 7 3/8 in.) sheet: 25.4 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 in.) mat: 43.18 × 35.56 cm (17 × 14 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Susan and Peter MacGill
Accession Number
2014.146.5.3
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
André Kertész · 1894–1985
André Kertész, born Andor Kertész on July 2, 1894, in Budapest, Hungary, to a middle-class Jewish family, initially pursued a conventional path as a clerk at the Budapest Stock Exchange after graduating from the Academy of Commerce in 1912. Self-taught in photography after purchasing his first camera that year, he captured his early poetic visions of Hungarian landscapes and peasant life, includin...