Self-Portrait with Erzsébet Salamon
André Kertész
June 9, 1920
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 3.7 x 5.1 cm (1 7/16 x 2 in.) sheet: 3.9 x 5.2 cm (1 9/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation
Accession Number
2000.170.16
About the Artist
André Kertész
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...