Talk | André Kertész: Lost in America

Name: Talk | André Kertész: Lost in America
Start: 2025-01-23T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-23T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 200 N Arthur Ashe Blvd, Richmond, VA, United States, Virginia 23220

Schedule

Thu Jan 23 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

200 N Arthur Ashe Blvd, Richmond, VA, United States, Virginia 23220 | Richmond, VA

Explore the wildly creative but often misunderstood period in the life of Hungarian-born American photographer André Kertész.
Interweaving Kertész’s photographs, particularly self-portraits, with the artist’s life story, Robert Gurbo, President of the André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation, will unveil a powerful and brooding body of art hidden beneath the surface of seemingly simple images.
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Robert Gurbo, president and managing director of the Estate of André Kertész and The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation, met Kertész while working as a photographer on the CCF-CETA Artists Project in 1978. He worked with Kertész during the last seven years of the photographer's life and has spent the last 39 years meticulously combing through his archive. Gurbo is the co-author of the catalogue that accompanied the 2005 National Gallery exhibition, André Kertész, published by Princeton University Press. He is also the editor and author of André Kertész: The Early Years and André Kertész: The Polaroids. In addition, he organized the reissue of Kertész’s seminal book, On Reading. He has contributed to numerous publications and catalogues; lectured on André Kertész throughout the world; and is an advisor to museum curators, gallerists, and collectors.