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Picture - Snap! By Nigel A JAMES
Andre Kertesz
Picture - Snap! By Nigel A JAMES
Andre Kertesz
Andre
Kertesz was a famous photographer. He was born in
Budapest in 1894, and later moved to Paris. His most famous
photo is the one he took in Meudon.
It shows
a steam train going over a viaduct, an old run-down house, a
smartly dressed man carrying a parcel, a mother and her child, and a
group of men walking towards a building site.
Andre
Kertesz worked all over the world and in 1936 he emigrated to the
USA.
Andre
Kertesz died in New York in 1985.
Vocabulary
building
site – Baustelle
famous –
berühmt
moved
(move/moved/moved) – übersiedelt
run-down –
schlechter Zustand
shows
(show/showed/showed) – zeigen
took
(take/took/taken) aufnehmen – (to take a
picture)
towards –
richtunghin
was born –
würde geboren
Questions
Where was
Andre Kertesz born?
In which
city was Andre Kertesz born?
When was
Andre Kertesz born?
What does
Andre Kertesz's most famous picture show us?
Where did
Andre Kertesz emigrate to?
Where is
Budapest?
When did
Andre Kertesz die?