Confined to an apartment overlooking NYC's Washington square park, the extraordinary life of Andre Kertesz (1894-1985) would have a final period of solitary reflection. A gift from Graham Nash (of Crosby, Stills, & Nash) who would occasionally visit the apartment with his wife Susan, would help him objectify this emotional journey...a Polaroid SX-70 camera, the ultimate creation of instant photography inventor Edwin Land.
On page 18 of The Critical Eye Lyle Rexer states, "Kertesz had an ability to find metaphors for his inner experience." Throughout his long career Kertesz's work would embrace this, and in his last pictures that was all that was left.
August 3, 1979
April 11,1979
December 9, 1979
January 1979
Susan Nash, September 27, 1979
"Without a sense of the life and the work that have come before, the world of these last photographs may appear confined and melancholy. With that background, it appears rich with the possibility of making meaning about the most profound experiences, from the smallest things." Rexer, p.22
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