Pipe and Glasses, Paris
1926, printed 1981
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 19.8 × 24.5 cm (7 13/16 × 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.) mat: 35.56 × 43.18 cm (14 × 17 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Susan and Peter MacGill
Accession Number
2014.146.5.7
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...