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The travelling exhibition, which first showed at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, features 250 photographs and documents.
The National Museum has launched a website, www.mnm.hu/andrekertesz, focussing on the show which runs until the end of this year.
Kertész (1894-1985) started taking pictures in 1912. While serving in WWI, he photographed the everyday lives of soldiers in a way that deviated from the heroic images common at the time.
Kertész moved to Paris in 1925 to devote his life to his chosen profession, photography, and entered the lively artistic environment of Montparnasse. His talent quickly won him recognition and he had a solo exhibition at the Sacre du Printemps gallery within two years. He created his famous ?Distortions? series in 1933 and his first album, entitled ?Paris through the Eyes of André Kertész?, was published the following year. His photographs also appeared in French illustrated magazine VU.
Under a contract signed with the agency Keystone, Kertész moved to New York in 1936. After a short time, he started working for magazines such as House and Garden, Harper?s Bazaar and Vogue.
The Museum of Modern Art showed an exhibition of Kertész?s work in 1964, two years after his retirement. This was followed by further shows in Tokyo, Stockholm, Budapest, London and Paris.
From the mid 1970s, he started making Polaroid series of the view from his New York apartment, which he dedicated to his wife?s memory.
