image is a Paris cityscape of tall buildings viewed from a height; printed from a broken negative with a hole left of C with cracks radiating outward from hole; a church in upper R quadrant; arrived in a white mat and black frame

Broken Plate, 1929 (printed later)

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During his time living in the French capital, André Kertész took many pictures of Parisian streets. When he left Paris in 1936, he left behind the glass-plate negative for this photograph with a friend. The friend kept this and other negatives throughout the Second World War, many of which were eventually returned to Kertész in 1963. He discarded many of the negatives, but kept this one. The reunification offered Kertész an opportunity to revisit his earlier work and consider this broken plate as a new composition.

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Details
Title
Broken Plate
Artist Life
American (born Austria-Hungary), 1894–1985
Role
Photographer
Accession Number
2023.49
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image is a Paris cityscape of tall buildings viewed from a height; printed from a broken negative with a hole left of C with cracks radiating outward from hole; a church in upper R quadrant; arrived in a white mat and black frame
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