Andre Kertesz - From My Window
Kertesz; Italian Blown Glass—"Elizabeth."
Andre Kertesz' still life images in from my window show how objects can be used to document feelings and emotions, after his wife died Kertesz started to document objects from his apartment that reminded him of her presence. He shot these objects using a Polaroid camera on his windowsill using the light and backdrops available to him.
These images show how objects like photographs are aides to memory, we use them to remind us and help us relate to people who are absent. We all have objects in our lives that have a significance to us more then their monetary worth, either they were gifts from loved ones or they relate to a significant event of our lives. These images allow the significance of these objects to Kertesz to be passed on to us and their original mundanity has something added to it. The question is would they seem so full of importance if we didn't know that these were part of the memories of his wife or does just the act of photographing them show they have significance?
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