Mary Ellen Mark
André Kertész

André Kertész

© Mary Ellen Mark/The Mary Ellen Mark Foundation

André Kertész
André Kertész
ArtistAmerican, 1940–2015
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • André Kertész
Date1983
PlaceNew York, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 1/16 × 10 1/8 in. (25.6 × 25.7 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Sonia and Kaye Marvins Portrait Collection, museum purchase funded by Sonia and Kaye Marvins
Object number90.261
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
Description

Mary Ellen Mark has found portrait subjects in teen runaways, Indian
circuses, Indian prostitutes, and women in mental institutions. She has also
worked as a still photographer on film sets, such as
One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest, Apocalypse Now,
and American Heart.





Because she concentrates on one subject for an
extended
period of time, Mark is able to become intellectually intimate
with her sitters.
The knowledge of the subject that she brings to her
photographs
allows the viewer to see a person rather than a mere oddity.
She finds a
photograph's success predicated upon whether it "has a sense
of content
or soul to it."





The success of Andre Kertesz is a result of
Mark's ability to capture the famed photographer's patient, yet watchful,
manner. Years of street photography had taught Kertesz to patiently wait for
the right instant to capture an otherwise irretrievable moment; this was a
lesson obviously well learned by Mary Ellen Mark.




Provenance Research Ongoing Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso center in pencil "Andre Kertész 1983"
verso center in pencil "Mary Ellen Mark"

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