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ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894–1985)
Underwater Swimmer, Esztergom, Hungary, 1917
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed later
signed and dated in pencil (mount, recto)
image/sheet: 63⁄4 x 91⁄2 in. (17.1 x 24.1 cm.)
mount: 137⁄8 x 18 in. (35.2 x 45.7 cm.)
Literature
Pierre Borhan, André Kertész, His Life and Work, Little, Brown, Boston, 1944, p. 69.
Nicolas Ducrot, André Kertész: Sixty Years of Photography, Penguin Books, New York, 1978, p. 41.
André Kertész, Hungarian Memories, Little, Brown, Boston, 1982, p. 5.
André Kertész and Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, The Manchester Collection, England, 1984, pl. 255, p. 158.
André Kertész, Andre Kertesz and Avant-garde Photography of the Twenties and Thirties, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 1999, pl. 34.
Sarah Greenough, André Kertész, National Gallery of Art; Princeton University Press, Washington D.C., 2005, p. 16.
Renhold Misselbeck, 20th Century Photography, Taschen, Cologne, Germany, 2012, p. 330.
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