Andre Kertesz exhibition opens in Rome

Organised as part of the “Great Masters of Photography” series, the exhibition shows photos of Kertesz’s family members, friends and several sites in Budapest and in Esztergom, Rackeve 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 Kertesz’s home in New York.

The pictures are on loan from the Andre Kertesz 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, Kertesz created a universe of his own, in which he developed the formal language of modern photography,” the statement said.

“As Kertesz 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.