Hommage

Maybe Kertész would have been a blipper, he said this, "I bought a camera. It became for me a little notebook, a sketchbook. I photographed things that surrounded me - human things, animals, my home the shadows, pesants, the life around me. I always photographed what the moment told me."

On Sunday mornings, I like to walk. Walk, think. Walk, don't think. Some weeks I go to an urban deer park and others to the university campus. It was the latter today as I wanted to collect a book.

I sat in the library cafe, absorbed in the treasure trove which you see above. A friend from across the pond (who also led me here) recommended it. We were chatting on MSN. I mentioned that I'd visited a Kertész exhibition 'On Reading' at The Photographers' Gallery in London. Nick said 'Kertész on Kertész - a Self Portrait' was not to be missed.

So thank you, Nick and thank you, Kertész.

"André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people and about life, and a preceise sense of form." Brassaï