by Andrea Rosen, Curator of Under the Surface. In Meudon, the dissimilarity between the viaduct, the construction at its base, and the dilapidated rowhouses is as unsettling as the man furtively walking towards the viewer with a large package under his arm. Visually tying it all together is the train steaming overhead into the scene. To […]
André Kertész, Meudon, 1928
By Tracey Faber, ’16. The wonder of photography, hinging upon its essential character as a mirror image of the ‘real,’ is in what it captures. Yet the true marvel of the medium is in what shimmers around the edges of the photograph: the extension of a narrative, the knowledge that a moment in time has […]
André Kertész, Meudon, 1928
by Sam Miller ’15. André Kertész’s photograph Meudon exudes a distinct sense of alienation by exemplifying surrealism’s exploitation of accidental juxtapositions. The first word that came to mind when looking at this photograph was ominous. There is something unsettling, something sinister about this scene. While nothing is perceptibly “wrong,” it actively radiates an implication that […]