André Kertész

Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York

“It was a great day for American photography when André Kertész landed on our shores,” wrote the New York Post about Hungarian-born Kertész just a few years after his immigration (André Kertész: Of Paris and New York, p. 112). Despite formative and impactful artistic periods in Hungary and France, it was the United States where Kertész would reside the longest. Forced to flee his community in Paris in the wake of WWII, Kertész immigrated to New York City for employment at Keystone Studios. Untitled (Rockefeller Center) is emblematic of his exploratory street photography. Kertész contrasts the organic shapes of the tree branches against the formal geometries of the Rockefeller Center windows.