HUNGARIAN-BORN PHOTOGRAPHER KNOWN FOR HIS GROUNDBREAKING CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION AND THE PHOTO ESSAY. WITH HIS THEN-UNORTHODOX CAMERA ANGLES AND STYLE. SEMINAL FIGURE OF PHOTOJOURNALISM. IN PARIS HE FOUND CRITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUCCESS. FIRST PHOTOGRAPHER TO HAVE A ONE-MAN EXHIBITION; IN 1932 THE PRICE OF KERTÉSZ'S PROOFS WAS SET AT US$20, A LARGE SUM OF MONEY DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION. HE CREATED PHOTO PORTRAITS OF PAINTERS PIET MONDRIAN AND MARC CHAGALL, THE WRITER COLETTE. IN 1945, KERTESZ RELEASED A NEW BOOK, DAY OF PARIS, MADE UP OF PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN JUST BEFORE HIS EMIGRATION FROM FRANCE.
HUNGARIAN-BORN PHOTOGRAPHER KNOWN FOR HIS GROUNDBREAKING CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION AND THE PHOTO ESSAY. WITH HIS THEN-UNORTHODOX CAMERA ANGLES AND STYLE. SEMINAL FIGURE OF PHOTOJOURNALISM. IN PARIS HE FOUND CRITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUCCESS. FIRST PHOTOGRAPHER TO HAVE A ONE-MAN EXHIBITION; IN 1932 THE PRICE OF KERTÉSZ'S PROOFS WAS SET AT US$20, A LARGE SUM OF MONEY DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION. HE CREATED PHOTO PORTRAITS OF PAINTERS PIET MONDRIAN AND MARC CHAGALL, THE WRITER COLETTE. IN 1945, KERTESZ RELEASED A NEW BOOK, DAY OF PARIS, MADE UP OF PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN JUST BEFORE HIS EMIGRATION FROM FRANCE.
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