André Kertész

Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto

Acquired from the above in 1999 by the present owner

Nicholas Durcot, ed., André Kertész: Sixty Years of Photography, 1912-1972 (New York, 1972), p. 132

André Kertész: Diary of Light, 1912-1985 (New York: The International Center of Photography and Aperture, 1986), p. 189

“But in his Paris pictures, a moody vulnerability mixes in with the other emotions. Many of them are nocturnes, with solitary figures trudging through the mist. These pictures, taken right after his arrival, hint at the isolation he must have felt as a young man wandering the streets of an unfamiliar city. As an émigré, in Paris and, later, in New York, Kertész slipped naturally into the role of outsider. Looking at his pictures, we get the impression that his status as a reporter, as someone who stood always a little to the side, recording his observations, suited him; that, in fact, he embraced it as a kind of special distinction that enabled him to take note of things others might have missed.” (André Kertész: Diary of Light, p. 189)