Knopf, André Kertész Distortions, New York, 1976, p. 132
Catalogue Essay
Gerd Sander met André Kertész in New York in 1975 through a mutual friend Wolf von dem Bussche. As both were photographers, Sander and Kertész began to work and collaborate with each other. In need of work and money, Sander offered to restore Kertész’s glass plate negatives from the 1930s, in particular his seminal ‘Distortions’ works. At $6 per negative Sander set about restoring these works and creating duplicate negatives. It was during this decade and after the restoration that Kertész had a new found interest in his distortion works, and because of this restoration Kertész was able to proceed with the publication of his book Distortions, which was published the following year.