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Series Title: Hungarian Memory

Wandering Violinist, Abony

1921, printed 1980

André Kertész

(American, 1894–1985)
printer

Hyperion Press

Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 24.6 x 19 cm (9 11/16 x 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 25.3 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alan and Monah L. Gettner 2021.119
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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In the early 1920s, André Kertész did clerical work at the Budapest stock market and photographed in his free time.

Description

As a young man, Kertész often photographed rural and small-town life in Hungary. Abony is an agricultural town about 50 miles outside Budapest. This violinist, André Kertész remembered, was “a blind musician not a gypsy, who wandered from village to village with his boy.” He made his living playing for donations.
A vertically oriented black-and-white photograph depicts three people on a dirt path. To our right, a man with a medium skin tone in a brimmed hat plays a violin while looking at us. A wooden crutch supports his left arm. Beside him, a barefoot boy with a medium skin tone and a flat cap walks right, carrying a cloth. In the distance to our left, a toddler with a light skin tone watches them.

Wandering Violinist, Abony

1921, printed 1980

André Kertész, Hyperion Press

(American, 1894–1985)
America

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