Andre Kertesz

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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

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