Presents a sampling of Kertesz's photographs and examines the development of his career

Andre Kertesz of Paris and New York

David Travis

Weston J. Naef

Sandra S. Phillips

Biographies & Memoirs

Thames&Hudson

First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Photographically-illustrated stiff wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by André Kertész. Text by Sandra S. Phillips, David Travis and Weston J. Naef. Includes notes on the catalogue, a selected bibliography and an index. 288 pp., with 179 black-and-white plates and numerous illustrations finely printed by the Meriden Gravure Company, Connecticut. 11 x 9-1/4 inches. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Andre Kertesz: Of Paris and New York

Arts & Photography

Weston Naef

Photography & Video

Art Institute of Chicago Museum

Between 1938 and 1948, Edward Weston took the last photographs of his distinguished career. In 1938 he returned to scenic Carmel, California, after a twenty-five-thousand-mile, two-year journey through the American West on Guggenheim fellowships. He and his young wife, Charis, built a pine-wood home and studio overlooking the Pacific and only one mile from Point Lobos, the unspoiled headland that, over the years, had become the artist's favorite site for testing ideas and finding new approaches to advance his art. But in the decade following his return to Carmel, Weston photographed Point Lobos and the Big Sur with different eyes. Where he had previously focused on details and still lifes, he now found himself drawn to horizons, vistas, and moody atmospheres. Photographs of this late period reveal a greater psychological component than do the more formalist images that preceded them. Weston's work became both a release and receptacle, as he battled with Parkinson's disease, experienced a failing marriage, and saw his sons leave for military service during World War II. No longer the brash adventurer nor satisfied with technical virtuosity and innovative composition, Weston, in a more somber state of mind, drew out the elemental power of his coastal environment. These landscapes - many previously unpublished - show us a new aspect of Weston's artistry and will surprise even those most familiar with his work. Touching portraits of Weston's family and domestic scenes in and around his home - all from this late period - have also been included here by curator and author David Travis, to give readers an in-depth view of the man behind the camera in the final years of his career. This late body of work has never before been extensively researched or exhibited, in part because it is so markedly different from the earlier images that made Weston famous. The majority of the seventy-six photographs featured in this book is drawn from private and public collections, but most especially those of The Art Institute of Chicago and the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Edward Weston: The Last Years in Carmel

Art Inst of Chicago Museum Shop

Hungarian-born André Kertész (1894-1985) was one of the most influential and popular photographers of the twentieth century. This volume presents for the first time selections from the Getty Museum's holdings of Kertész's photographs, including work from his Budapest, Paris, and New York periods. The book also offers an intimate look at Kertész through a dialogue among four of the people who knew the artist best during the last years of his life: Robert Gurbo, Curator of New York's André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation; David Travis, Curator of Photography at the Art Institute; Sylvia Plachy, photographer; and the Getty's Curator of Photographs, Weston Naef. The discussion was moderated by Charles Hagen, writer and critic for the New York Times.

In Focus: Andre Kertesz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

Charles Hagen

J.paul Getty Museum

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