Renowned Hungarian-born photographer’s exhibition opens in Rome

An exhibition of renowned Hungarian-born photographer André Kertész has opened in the Hungarian Academy cultural centre in Rome featuring a rare collection of images he had taken in Hungary prior to emigrating from his country, the organisers said on Friday.

Organised as part of the “Great Masters of Photography” series, the exhibition shows photos of Kertész’s family members, friends and several sites in Budapest and in Esztergom, Ráckeve and Szigetbecse, the town he considered “the birthplace” of his art, they said in a statement. A selection of his iconic images are also on display along with personal objects coming from Kertész’s home in New York.

The pictures are on loan from the André Kertész Museum in Szigetbecse and include those he personally selected in his late adulthood and donated to the town and the museum as a gift of honour for “the magical experiences” he had gained in Szigetbecse as a child.

“With his oeuvre, Kertész created a universe of his own, in which he developed the formal language of modern photography,” the statement said.

“As Kertész used to say: ‘photography is my only language’, and he spoke that language like nobody else did before,” according to the statement.

The free-entry exhibition in the Falconieri Palace runs until November 22.

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