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"A powerful collection of the luminous last work of one of the true giants of 20th century photography. After the death of his wife, André KERTÉSZ consoled himself with a new camera, the 'Polaroid SX-70'. As with previous devices, he mastered the camera and produced provocative works that marked both his wife and his depression. Here Andre KERTÉSZ draws on his reserves for the last time, and with new people, ideas and tools, he opens up a whole new body of work, through which he transforms himself from a broken man into a youthful artist. Almost completely unpublished until then, these photographs are a testament to the genius of the photographer's eye as manifested in the simple Polaroid.

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Taken in his apartment just north of New York's Washington Square, many of these photographs were taken either from his window or from his windowsill. We see a fertile mind at work, combining personal objects into striking still lifes set against the backdrop of the cityscape, reflected and transformed in glass surfaces." (freely translated, © Norton, 2007)