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Kertész greatly influenced a subsequent generation of photographers including Man Ray, Brassai, Maholy Nagy and Cartier-Bresson.

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"A Hungarian friend of mine introduced me to the editor of the magazine Le Sourire, a very French sort of magazine ­ satiric, risqué. [They] asked me to do something. I bought two distorting mirrors in the
flea market ... With existing light and an old lens ... I achieved amusing impressions" ­ André Kertész, on his Distortion series.

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1933 was an important year for Kertész: he made his famous series of Distortions; his first book "Enfants" (Children) was published; and he married his second wife, Elizabeth Saly.

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Recognition came slow in New York, but a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1964 re-established his international reputation.

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In 1936 Kertész moved to New York to fulfill a one-year contract with the Keystone photo agency. He remained there until his death in 1985.

• Art expert:

Kertész greatly influenced a subsequent generation of photographers including Man Ray, Brassai, Maholy Nagy and Cartier-Bresson.

• Art expert:

He photographed some of the greatest artists living in Paris at that time including Brancusi, Mondrian and Chagall, and the film-maker Sergei Eisenstein.

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He moved to Paris in 1936 and immediately became involved in its bohemian artistic lifestyle.

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André (originally Andor) Kertész was born in Budapest in July 1894.