Andre Kertesz
Andre Kertesz
André Kertész, born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism. The Estate of André Kertész is represented by Bruce Silverstein Gallery New York, NY...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth2 July 1894
I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.
I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.
People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.
The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.
Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph
The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.
Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison d'être. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison d'être, which lives on in itself.
Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.
If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression.