1852–1934 · United States · Photographer
Gertrude Kasebier
Soft-focus Pictorialist portraits of mothers, children and sitters at rest.
The Manger, 1899Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1894–1985 · HUNGARY
Andre Kertesz
Lyrical small-camera observations with unusual angles and humour.
- Born
- 1894
- Died
- 1985
- Country
- Hungary
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1928The Fork
- 1926Mondrian's Glasses and Pipe
- 1933Distortions
- 1945Day of Paris
WHY THEY MATTER
First photographer to have a one-man exhibition (1927); solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago (1946) and the Museum of Modern Art (1964).
THE LIFE
Kertesz was born in Hungary, worked in Paris from 1925 and moved to New York in 1936. He was among the first to exploit the small hand camera for intimate, offbeat observations of daily life. His Distortions series used warped mirrors to bend the nude body. Recognition came late, with a Museum of Modern Art show in 1964.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
Leica
Also born in 1850–1899
1857–1927 · France · Photographer
Eugene Atget
Patient, empty-street records of old Paris before modernisation.
Avenue des Gobelins, 1927Source: Wikipedia
1864–1946 · United States · Photographer
Alfred Stieglitz
From Pictorialism to sharp modernism, with a deep belief in photography as art.
The Steerage, 1907Source: Wikipedia
1874–1940 · United States · Photographer
Lewis Hine
Direct, dignified portraits of working children and labourers.
Young Doffers in the Elk Cotton Mills, 1910Source: Wikipedia
1876–1964 · Germany · Photographer
August Sander
Typological portraits of every class and trade, frontal and calm.
Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit), 1929Source: Wikipedia
1879–1973 · United States · Photographer
Edward Steichen
Painterly early work, then glossy modern fashion and celebrity portraits.
The Flatiron, 1904Source: Wikipedia