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July 2,                                                                                               

Andor Kertész – later André Kertész – is born in Budapest, as the middle child of a middle-class Jewish family.

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His father, Lipót Kertész (ca. ) was a book merchant, his mother, Ernesztin Hoffmann () owned a coffee bar.

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He spends a lot of his childhood and youth at his relatives in the country-side, in and nearby the settlement of Szigetbecse.

“When I was six years old, I was visiting my relatives where I found magazines illustrated with beautiful old woodcuts.

I fell in love with these deeply. I thought that later I would do things like those &#; and from then on, I looked at things as I photographed later.”

After the death of his father, he and his two brothers are taken into the custody of their mother’s brother. Upon completing his studies, his uncle gets him a job at the Budapest Commodity and Stock Excha André Kertész | Hungarian-American Photojournalist & Street ...

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