Turin, an anthological exhibition at Camera brings together the shots of André Kertész

A major anthology of one of the absolute masters of 20th-century photography, André Kertész (Budapest, 1894 - New York, 1985). In Turin, the exhibition André Kertész. Work 1912-1982 marks CAMERA’s fall season. Produced in collaboration with the Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie (MPP) in Paris - an institute that preserves the more than one hundred thousand negatives and all the archives donated by the photographer to the French state in 1984 - the exhibition is composed of more than one hundred and fifty images tracing the entire career of the Hungarian-born photographer, who was born in Budapest in 1894, came to France in 1925 and finally moved to the United States in 1936, where he died in 1985.

The exhibition follows the author’s biographical stages, from the first amateur photographs taken in his home country and during the years of World War I, to the famous icons made in Paris, the capital of the cultural world in the 1920s and 1930s, the masterpieces made in the studio of the painter Piet Mondrian, the street scenes and finally the “distortions” that made him a leading figure even in the Surrealist sphere. The exhibition then sheds new light on the long second part of his existence, spent across the ocean in a profoundly different cultural climate: indeed, the images of these years show how on the one hand Kertész continues his research by returning to the same themes, and on the other hand he highlights the effect that new architecture, new lifestyles, and new cityscapes have on his photography.

The exhibition, curated by Matthieu Rivallin -- head of MPP’s Department of Photography and a great expert on Kertész -- and Walter Guadagnini -- artistic director of CAMERA -- also celebrates the 60th anniversary of the photographer’s presence at the Venice Biennale: the track of the works in the exhibition is in fact based on the handwritten list of the works exhibited on that occasion, found among the documents in the MPP archives, an extra curiosity that links the great master to our country.

The official radio station for the exhibition is Radio Monte Carlo.

For all information, you can visit CAMERA’s official website.

Pictured: André Kestész, Satirical Dancer, Paris, 1926 © Donation André Kertész, Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie, diffusion RMN-GP

Turin, an anthological exhibition at Camera brings together the shots of André Kertész

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