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André Kertész (1894 – 1985)
Promenade (Walking man, four legs), USA, New York, 17 October 1962
Item number 085-01936
This photograph is characterised by a puzzling by a puzzling duplication: the lower body of a passer-by walking, which is overlapped by the upper edge of the format, appears to be repeated at the lower edge of the picture. In fact, it is two men on different paths. The interlocking buildings and plants at different heights make a seemingly assembled picture like this possible.
However, it also requires an eye, the ability to react and creative talent – in short, a master behind the camera. Kertész had a penchant for photographically distorted bodies, for ‘productive overlaps’ and confusing proportions. He mastered the art of creating eminently photographic images like no other, without losing sight of reality.
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Gelatin silver print, print date: 1980s
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Image dimensions 24,7 x 19,7 cm (24,7 x 19,7 inch)
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Object dimensions 25,3 x 20,3 cm (25,3 x 20,3 inch)
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Mounting, Framing Archival mat board 40 x 30 cm, frame on request
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Condition
Double-weight, semi-matt baryta paper, in very good condition (traces of mounting on the reverse) -
Annotations
Photographer's credit in an unknown hand in pencil and number label on the reverse -
Literature
André Kertész, Sixty years of Photographs 191 1972, London: Thames & Hudson 1972, S. 186. -
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