After the death of his wife, André Kertész consoled himself by taking up a new camera, the Polaroid SX70. As with earlier equipment, he mastered the camera and he produced a provocative body of work that both honoured his wife and lifted him out of depression.
       Here Kertész dips into his reserves one last time, tapping new people, ideas and tools to generate a new body of work through which he transforms from a broken man into a youthful artist. Taken in his apartment just north of New York's Washington Square, many of these photographs were shot either from his window or in the windowsill. We see a fertile mind at work, combining personal objects into striking still lifes set against cityscape backgrounds, reflected and transformed in glass surfaces. Almost entirely unpublished work, these photographs are a testament to the genius of the photographer's eye as manifested in the simple Polaroid.

October 2007 • £25.00 • ISBN 978 0 393 06564 0 • 128pp • 153 x 178mm • 80 colour photographs