“Andre Kertész: An Artist’s Life” A Lecture by Robert Gurbo
“Andre Kertész: An Artist’s Life”
A Lecture by Robert Gurbo
presented by the Ground Glass and The Rye Arts Center
The Ground Glass and The Rye Arts Center are pleased to present Robert Gurbo, the curator of the André Kertész Estate. Mr. Gurbo’s topic will be The Life and Work of Andre Kertész. This presentation offers an intimate and personal look at the life and work of Kertész. Gurbo interweaves the photographer’s work into the timeline of Kertész’s complicated life story, offering his unique and personal perspective of the life and work of a man Gurbo claims to have been obsessed with since he was 16 years old.
André Kertész (1894-1985) was an undisputed master of photography. Widely seen as the father of photojournalism and street photography, he created much of the visual vocabulary of the medium that is still in use today. From his pioneering work in Hungary, through his influential work during Paris’s artistic heyday, right up to his final days in New York, Kertész’s photographs display an ability to infuse personal narrative and design into a documentary style that was uniquely his own. In a body of work that spans much of the 20th century, Kertész created deceptively simple images of everyday life that reflected his own state of mind and questioned his very existence and relationship to the world around him.
Robert Gurbo worked with Kertész over the last seven years of his life and spent the past 38 years combing through the artist’s archive. Mr. Gurbo is the author of three books on Andre Kertész and co-author of the catalog that accompanied the 2005 National Gallery retrospective. He has also contributed numerous essays to magazines.
Guests are welcome at no charge.
Event Location and Ticket Information
The Rye Arts Center
51 Milton Road
Rye, New York 10580
Handicap Accessible? Yes
Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Times: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Ticket pricing:
Free event
Presenter: The Ground Glass
Presenter Phone: 914-582-05844
Presenter Website: www.thegroundglass.org