André Kertész: The Polaroids

A powerful collection of the luminous last work by one of the true giants of twentieth-century photography. After the death of his wife Andr Kertsz consoled himself by taking up a new camera the Polaroid SX70. As with earlier equipment he mastered the camera and produced a provocative body of work that both honored his wife and lifted him out of depression. Here Kertsz dips into his reserves one last time tapping new people ideas and tools to generate a whole new body of work through which he transforms from a broken man into a youthful artist. Taken in his apartment just north of New York Citys Washington Square many of these photographs were shot either from his window or in the windowsill. We see a fertile mind at work combining personal objects into striking still lifes set against cityscape backgrounds reflected and transformed in glass surfaces. Almost entirely unpublished work these photographs are a testament to the genius of the photographers eye as manifested in the simple Polaroid. Duotone photographs throughout