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Series Title: Hungarian Memory

Forced March to the Front, between Lonié and Mitulen, Poland

1915, printed 1980

André Kertész

(American, 1894–1985)
printer

Hyperion Press

Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 16.9 x 24.6 cm (6 5/8 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 2022.75
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

André Kertész fought on the Polish and Russian Fronts during World War I as a member of the Austro-Hungarian infantry.

Description

Taken on July 19, 1915, this photograph shows soldiers being marched toward the front to participate in in a combined offensive by the Astro-Hungarian and German armies against the Russians. Kertész captured the moment when one soldier turns his head to the right, revealing his profile and putting a human face on the faceless column of trudging bodies to which the photographer also belonged.
A horizontally oriented black-and-white photograph depicts a long line of soldiers with light skin tones marching through a field. The men form a single-file line curving from the foreground on our left toward the background on our right. Carrying heavy packs and rifles, most walk away under a pale sky. One man in the foreground looks back toward us as the line stretches into the distant landscape.

Forced March to the Front, between Lonié and Mitulen, Poland

1915, printed 1980

André Kertész, Hyperion Press

(American, 1894–1985)
America

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