Talented, sure. But you hardly need wiki the rest. Wealthy Jewish parents. Its a big cronyistic mutual backscratching clique. Like the exclusive public school clique in England who corner all the good, easy, well paid positions in the arts and elsewhere. Think how many even greater talents were denied to us by this inverted racism over the decades.

Like privileged Duchamp, privileged Brant had a wealthy and encouraging parent- springboard to launch him into success and recognition. Talent almost always needs a solid base of lubricating wealth to get the essential connections to get ahead. Otherwise its a lifetime of Van Gogh in a starving garret... as many many uber talented artists have discovered.😢

So very different 😎

A great storyteller (not only with camera). Informative, wise and sweet.

Wonderful wonderful interview. I learned so much. Thank you!

What a creepy dude. Almost exclusively photographed women. No way he didn't rape some along the way.

Around 17:00 he has an insight about the future of digital photography

He died the year after this. Still sounded great here.

I am confused. Here it says his Mother was German, his father British, and that he was born in Hamburg but later disowned his German heritage, moved to London, and claimed he was born in South London. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Brandt

So sad the quality of this video prevents seeing the artwork

I absolutely love Ansel. He's a huge inspiration to me these days when I take landscapes in England although I could never be a fraction as good as he was, he was a total master and American legend. So many great artists came out of the US at this time.

I recently found myself shooting my local area in my country almost frenetically. I've been working abroad in western EU in a country with no mountains or even hills! I got interested in my local areas landscape and found out that the interesting hills and unique silhouettes, shapes and colors are formed before 31-35 million years, mainly by volcanic activity. And indeed you start to see what you've been born into as something unique and something that evokes deep feelings when you truly start to look deeper into and understand it. In a way I was very much that guy who will travel to Iceland, to South America, some parts of Africa, but honestly now feel exactly the opposite and I advise you to learn much as possible about your birthplaces geology, history and observe it objectively(almost as a foreigner) and soon you will find a place to photograph and be really happy with. Spending tons of time and money to travel to the famous places is maybe bit too overrated or even trivial. I feel like everybody can be excited and happy photographing their place. facebook.com/mumun.hasan/posts/pfbid02gdfkAh6e3zjpxcsRXanBTcLtvA9cGz5wKc8cybDhHQ8Wma4R4jDsYwofZnLtFaWWl facebook.com/mumun.hasan/posts/pfbid02aJHYQvAo1v4wXZFk4cy2KDNJtR2rWbZQZGVakjqWP6VRmTGRJdGgh3Pz1bo1Swurl

I’m not sure if I’m Jewish, but I sure as heck know I’m Hungarian! Proud of this man!

I love that he waited 30+ years for the perfect pigeon picture. Lovely human.

"...I'm always an amateur - when you say you're from a magazine, you're dead...". Damn.

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" I was only honest with the moment, and with myself ". This summarizes why Andre Kertesz is an amazing artist.

2:12 macro stacking on the fly

This is a wonderful interview, thank you for sharing it.

What a humble photographer he was.Lovely stuff.Thank you for your youtube videos. Amazing to think that the VJ Day photograph at Times Square would be classed as a form of sexual assault as also seen with the Spanish women's winning world cup soccer coach in 2023.😮

Documento eccezionale. Qui il maestro aveva 89 anni, ma era ancora un ragazzino. Che fotografo!

The alphabet analogy is brilliant.

It was really a great privilege seeing Bill Brandt discuss his art. He was a truly great artist and photographer.

Unfortunately this will be mosly lost on todays generation were everyone wants to be a rich celebrity without doing much work. He is a humble soul.!

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Fascinating man , would love to have been able to talk with him

Amazing Deep!! Thanks!🙌👌

Photography used to be a skilled profession when the cameras were more difficult and expensive to work with, but digital has over saturated the landscape. Anyone can be a photographer now, and if Ansel was around now, his images would sadly not have the same impact, simply because of the amount of photos we see now. Not saying digital is a bad thing but it has made it more difficult for professional photographers to make a name for themselves.

The Master. I was fortunate to have met and conversed with Adams. Humble, gentle, engaging genius.

amazing, thanks for posting.

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These were startling images when I first saw this as a teenager. I'm aware of having seen so much since, and have to agree that his street photography is rather sentimental, even if this is stated here as a criticism and an American one, which is an amusing and surprising thing given the way Hollywood developed. We don't see Kertész's relationship with American figures like we see with his fellow Europeans. It gives him something of an isolated appearance as an émigré. There is a classical formality that made Kertész (perhaps literally) at home with Mondrian. I wonder if this was what was at odds in a country known for its informality? Still, it's hard not to admire his commitment to his way of working despite the limits that this imposed on his professional life. Interestingly, the search for things to commit to is often spoken about by art and photography students. Kertész's life seems an illustration of a romantic ideal. Thanks for putting this video up. A great programme then, and it's just as great now.

very poor video.I met and photographed Eisie! HE would be utterly devastated.

Absolute genius. Wow

If anything, he was all wrong being excited for digital photography, everything is lost leaving more to the machine and a pixelated screen. The film medium is still superior to digital, same when it comes to prints, the silver gelatin is superior in all qualities compared to the inkjet. As for everything else he said, it’s mostly textbook, but one doesn’t necessarily need to previsualize an image in his mind before making a good one, although I don’t know anyone else who could do it as well a few years back other than Michael Kenna and his extremely long exposures.. but it remains pretty much true for everyone else, because in previsualization there is the identity of the artist, the trademark and the first step towards creation. Almost all great photographers know/knew in advance what the image would look like, it’s particularly more true with black and white photographers, one of the first steps of procedure towards the making of an image worthy of attention, anticipating where can what you see and frame be lead to, a rather difficult mental and emotional thing to do. I don’t know, I’ve tried doing photography for years as it has always held my intention, gave me a sensation of awe and inspiration, and I’ve given it a lot of time, spent a lot of ressources and self sacrifice to it but nothing good really came out of it, at the end of the day it’s a God driven gift to be an artist of any sort, you cannot train to acquire intuition, you cannot become anything you want in this world, that’s the lie the world tells everybody, you just can’t go against what the higher powers decreed. Angel, Stieglitz, Stand, Bresson, Kertesz, Keighley, Emerson, White, Rembrandt, Turner, Brandt, Demachy, Misonne, Sudek, and I’m forgetting about dozens of other greats but the whole lot at the pantheon of visual artists, they were very peculiar people of their own, lived in their own peculiar times, were moved to places that God made them go to at the right particular time, with the particular emotion and mental state associated to it, with the times the world was living in, with the technology that was there or being developed, you can’t make this up, you can’t “replicate” what these guys did and no matter what they say about it, or how hard they try to explain it but the truth is self evident to the one who sees and has spent enough time trying, and I know they were self driven by powers far greater than them, same goes for Mozart, Bach or Chopin, even the Rolling Stones, it’s God who created everything, made every image and every melody, every man and woman, every tree and every snow flake, Man is just the instrument of the will of God, same with the clouds, he cannot escape what God has chosen for him to do. If God said it’s photography or painting, then there is no way in the world you gonna be a butcher or a pianist and enjoy it as much, you could try, but then it’s only confusion, sorrow and strife, and even confusion sorrow and strife is what God makes you be and feel, nothing belongs to us. You can feel it very deeply when your being doesn’t enjoy doing something, the same way you feel it very deep when you love something, and try as hard as you can but don’t get anything in return. All I ever wanted to do was to become a great visual artist, I don’t seem to care about anything else, I’ve looked and tried everything I could, i don’t have much desire within me to do anything else nor can spend as much time on anything else as when it comes to photography, I tried painting, I tried video making, I never enjoyed other forms nor was willing to spend a great deal of time or self sacrifice everything naturally as I do with photography but I suck at it, it’s like everything has been done already, and I feel like I’m in constant battle with God trying to let him me become a photographer but He won’t let me be it, and I’m left with nothing else, I’m torn apart on the inside, I don’t have this peace of mind, this enjoyment and self satisfaction like an Ansel Adams had doing what he loved and getting success with it. I’m don’t care at all when I comes to money or fame, I don’t care about these things, all I want is to make good images but I can’t make anything good no matter how hard I’m trying. Sleepless nights, sleeping in my car, thousands of kilometres traveled, thousands of euros spent, days searching, yet nothing is given to me in return, no love for the world and the things I witness these days around me or in nature, no love back. 5 years I’ve been trying day and night, giving it my all everyday, never stopping to think about photography like an infused desire embedded within my blood about this beautiful art form, and I’m given nothing, just negatives to be burned, unfruitful with countless hours spent, only sorrow and sickness, only confusion as to what I am and what I’m supposed to do to find any kind of relief or sense of joy for living in this phuccing world. I haven’t asked anything, I never asked to have the desire for photography, nor the love for it, it was put within me, I never even asked to be born or have life either, and what do I get in return ? Grief, inequity, this idol of jealousy dancing in front of me, mocking me, frustrating me. This life is a son of a b to me. Some people were made for it, others aren’t, and guess what, it’s the Bible in a nutshell. Some are blessed, some are cursed, God made some people special and others common and useless, but you just can’t love life when life just craps on you 24/7. I feel for all the cursed ones of this world, I felt for Hitler at times too, seeing how God clearly favours the Jews for everything and craps on everybody else, one of the reasons it lead me to read as I just couldn’t get past the favouritism the world gives to jewish people. Ansel Adams ? Another jew of course, ahhh surely God wouldn’t have made his life a living hell like mine ! Love his photographs though, not even jealous of his success, he’s been beaten to it, hiking, carrying heavy loads and all and was relieved through the process by creating wonderful visuals and pieces of art, I’ve done the same, just wanted to make pictures as inspiring, I’ve been beaten to it, but I’m given nothing in return, no place would give me love, no love I could find in any place, all I found was chaos in my days, excessive urbanism, ugliness, modern things, things already seen and done. F this world, the darkness that came before was far better than this devilish light, that’s my conclusion at 32 years old, with nothing but infection that nobody knows where it came from nor cares about as a gift, that’s the only thing I’ve received for all the sacrifices I made, disease, nothing else, no friend, no money, no family, no lover, no work, just disease, fingers pointed at me all day, even my own mother calling be crazy and insane, that’s what I get for no reason nor any sin worthy of such a punition. And f you all mockers in advance

His English is so broken though it’s almost unbearable to listen to him.. and then like all other successful artists he’s lying to everyone talking about himself when he knew very well the way he would see things comes from God alone and not from him, to be there at a certain time, doing such a thing instead of another, having the energy and the desire to take and make pictures. The man himself is irrelevant, he lived at a certain time, with a certain surrounding, with a certain way of seeing things and that’s how these pictures captivate us, but at the end of the day it’s just a gift from God, he will just loose you into nonsense chatter because he doesn’t want to tell you the truth that he knew damn well in his mind, that everything came from God alone that’s the only explanation for it, what he says all throughout this interview is utter bs.

He said he only shoot with natural light but in the end he was in studio with artificial light.

Marvellous stuff...thanks!

I met Bobby Mcferrin at an Ansel Adams Gallery in San Francisco.Not too far from MOMA ( Museum Of Modern Art )....😁

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I find Andre Kertesz a fascinating photographer. More than 55+ years I've been involved in photography (still have the darkroom) & love his style. What would he think of the digital age?

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Hello, just wondering are, you a Grandfather?

I almost cried visiting the Ansel Adams gallery in Yosemite..what a beautiful man with a Given talent he was ✌🏼🥲

Tremendous interview. He is really a perfectionist. RS. Canada