de-FORMATIONS: A group show featuring Andre Kertesz’s Distortions series

André Kertész, Distortion #137, Gelatin silver print, 1933
André Kertész, Distortion #137, Gelatin silver print, 1933
In 1933 André Kertész photographed two nude models in a carnival mirror as an assignment for the risqué publication Le Sourire. For a magazine often illustrated with erotic drawings, Kertész’s warped images of the female body slide away from the salacious and toward the unsettling.
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