André Kertész, The Polaroids - a photo on Flickriver

I hope some people will take the time to read this, because if you do you will be entranced by a story of how undying love can produce work of utter beauty.

The Hungarian/American photographer André Kertész (1894-1985) lived a long life. For most of it he was relatively unknown except to the circle of photographer friends who knew and loved his work in New York. If ever there was a photographers' photographer, here is such a person. A brilliantly skilled black and white photographer who had been taking pictures with a camera since 1912, was not really discovered until the 1960s.

I won't tell you much about his life here. You can look that up for yourselves.
www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/andr%C3%A9-kert%C...

But in honour of Flickr's Polaroid Week I can think of no greater collection of Polaroid images to present to you. This little book, André Kertész, The Polaroids is one of my photobook treasures. When you see the images in the link I provide below, I hope some of you will go out and buy the book. It doesn't matter if you never take a Polaroid in your life, this is some of the greatest still life photography you will ever see. I mean that absolutely!

And you know there's a reason why these still lifes are so beautiful. They were done for love. André Kertész was 85 years old and had just lost his wife of many decades when the Polaroid Corporation gifted him an SX-70 camera. He found some amazing glass ornaments with humanoid features, and while still grief stricken for his late wife, began to create a series of images that haunt us with their magical use of light and colour to express an undying love for his beloved. The collection was not published until 2007, long after his death.

Please, do yourself a favour and take a few minutes of your time to watch this video presentation. They are to my mind the greatest Polaroids ever taken.

Andre Kertesz The Polaroids
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHsoJ6NGFVU

Taken on: April 23, 2024

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