
André Kertész
Stairs of Montmarte, Paris, 1925
4 x 5 inch silver gelatin print
Shell stamp on verso. Printed by Igor Bakht in 1981 from original negative
André Kertész
André Kertész Biography Photographer André Kertész (1894-1985) was born in Budapest, Hungary. As a child, he’d rummage in his uncle’s attic through piles of old German and Hungarian illustrated magazines. He started to develop his passion and eye for photography while working as a Budapest stock exchange clerk; he purchased his first camera and made his first photograph in 1912....