André Kertész photographs

Location of collection:

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

University of Virginia

P.O. Box 400110

160 McCormick Rd

Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110

Contact for questions and access:

POC: Brenda Gunn

Email: bg9ba@virginia.edu

Phone: (434) 924-1037

Phone: (434) 243-1776

Fax: (434) 924-4968

Web: library.virginia.edu/special-collections

Web: library.virginia.edu/special-collections/services/reference-request

Restrictions:

There are no restrictions on access to these photographs.

Terms of access:

Copyright for all images owned by The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation.

Summary

Extent:

3 Cubic Feet and 4.959 Gigabytes

Creator:

Kertész, André, 1894-1985

Language:

English

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of fifty black-and-white print photographs created by André Kertész, and their digital copies. The photographs capture scenes of New York and Paris.

Acquisition information:

In 1985, an anonymous alum of the University of Virginia School of Law donated the photographs in this collection to the University of Virginia Law Library. [There is no provenance file.]

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Photography, Artistic