Photography

Andre Kertesz

Andre Kertesz is the third photographer I decided to look at. It's his series of distorted images that really caught my eye. 

 This is an example of one of them. He was first commisioned to do these for a magazine, then carried on to do more of this nature. Obviously the nature of distortion appealed to him, and I think all the photos are really genuinly intreguing. They seem almost surreal. He used carnival mirrors to take the photos and pretty much all of them are of female nudes. There is something about the photos that I find quite unsettling (In a good way) as reality is completley taken away and they are really confusing to look at. I think how he's not included the edges of the mirror emphasises this. It's not clear that these are taken through a mirror via the photos themselves which make them quite mysterious, and ulitmatly draws you in more to the figure itself.