Analysis of Andre KERTESZ

The famous Andre KERTESZ known for his contributions to photographic compositions, was born in Hungary on July 2nd 1894 and died, September 28th 1985.

From looking at the work done by Andre Kertesz, a few of them look like surreal/abstract photographs as he has a few strecthed and 'blurred' images of human bodies. However, Kertesz also worked with ordinary day to day objects focusing on their compositions, reflections, shadows and focus of the lens through the 35mm film camera to get a clear developed photograph.

Having to do impressions from his style of work, we began to use 35mm film cameras taking pictures of day to day shiny objects (and a few ordinary objects) to get a range of reflections and shadows within our photographs. During this task I had to focus majorly on the aperture and focusing ring as I didn't want to recieve any blurred images, because I was aiming to get clear, bold images when it got to the processing stage. However, enable to get a vary of shadows, lamps were provided for us, where we were able to shine and angle them anywhere around the subject to recieve an Kertesz impression shoot. Making sure the subjects were composed quite randomly or in a position where I could get as much detail as possible so that the outcome has an comparison to Andre Kertesz's work.

Overall, his techniques had an huge effect to my work, as it created bold, detail effects which has made the photographs develop to high standards.