Author: Kertesz, Andre and Hilton Kramer, et al.
Title: Distortions
Description: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Hardcover. Off-white DJ with b&w-photo illustration and black lettering under a clear Brodart DJ; grey boards with gilt lettering; 184 pp.; chiefly illustrations. This book brings back in its entirety a lost masterpiece of photography that has not been seen, complete, for some 40 years. "Distortions" is the great surrealist series that created a sensation on its first showing in 1932 in Paris. Earlier that year Kertesz had been asked by the French magazine "Le Sourire" to create a series of images of women and, out of the dreamlike "distortions" he had perceived as a young man watching swimmers move through the water, these pictures evolved. Four years later a number of them were exhibited in New York at the Museum of Modern Art, and again caused a furor. -- DJ. VG (Ex art library with a sticker on the DJ spine and on rear pastedown, and pencil markings; original DJ has chips missing/toning/scuffing/smudging, held on by Brodart DJ in good condition; boards are edgeworn; interior is very clean; binding is solid.) .

Keywords: Photography, Andre Kertesz ; Kertesz, Andre ; ;


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