Andre Kertesz
Andre Kertesz has a similar style as Josef Sudek as the compositions is a strong point of Andre’s work as Josef’s I would say. The difference between these two is the fact that Andre takes images of art and landscapes he’s an all-around photographer and doesn’t limit himself to one specific style of photography.
Andre Kertesz was born in Hungary. He is well known for his ground-breaking contributions to the photographic composition and the photo essay making it what it has become today. As I would say that Andre is all about his composition in his images, the best description of this is the us of the floor with a stair case going up and then the pillar blocking out the rest and all you can see past that point is the table with a plant pot and a strong shadow coming form the far right out of the frame, which creates this amazing shadow on the table of the plant.
The job that his family expected him to be was a stockbroker, the thing is that Andre pursued photography independently as an autodidact, his work in the earlier days before his fame that followed was all mainly primarily in magazines and newspapers. Andre also severed in WWI for some part of the time and after that he moved to Paris in 1925, where he developed and created is bigger and stronger images. After living there for a couple of years it became unsafe or Andre to live in France as of the WWII issue and Germany invading France, so Andre decided to emigrate to the USA in 1936, which in turn meant he had to restart his work and reputation through commissioned work once again. After 1950 he stopped working for magazines and news lets in photograph, he be again to achieve great international success in the US so he became fully dependent at his art work on what he produced.
Andre’s work can be very helpful to me and useful in my practice is that I should look at how I possibly look at my composition and what I have in my surrounding area when I capture and take into my images and how much I exulted and include in my images, for the final piece.
