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Series Title: Hungarian Memory

Tisza-Szalka

1924, printed 1980

André Kertész

(American, 1894–1985)
printer

Hyperion Press

Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 19.7 x 24.6 cm (7 3/4 x 9 11/16 in.); Paper: 20.3 x 25.1 cm (8 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alan and Monah L. Gettner 2021.114
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

There is a long tradition in Hungary of breeding ducks and geese.

Description

This woman is feeding the ducks in the late afternoon in the village of Tisza-szalka in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. The low angle of the sun allows André Kertész to turn this humble genre scene into a dance of bright sunlight and deep shadow.
A horizontally oriented gelatin silver print depicts a woman with a medium skin tone sitting against a white building, five white geese standing on the dirt before her. She wears a dark headscarf and long skirt. To the left, a slender tree trunk curves upward. Intense sunlight casts mottled leaf shadows across the wall behind her. On the right, another figure stands near a thatched roof, the scene defined by sharp, dark patterns.

Tisza-Szalka

1924, printed 1980

André Kertész, Hyperion Press

(American, 1894–1985)
America

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