Imre Kinszki - Bridge and Fog, 1930

Imre Kinszki - Bridge and Fog, 1930

(Modernism in Central Europe - Exhibition at the Washington National Gallery)

Born in Budapest in 1901, Kinszki was a well-connected Modernist photographer whose works could stand up with pictures by more famous Hungarian peers like André Kertesz, Brassai and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (Fotolia).

Here are some other photos of him: his daughter, Judith, then After the Rain (made in 1930) that reminds me of a great image from Regen, the masterpiece of Joris Ivens (from 1929), then the cover of a Kinszki album (the railway image), followed by a typewriter (compare it with the photos of Albert Renger-Patzsch). Follow two studies of shadows on the snow, a Budapestan street as it was looking in 1929, a locomotive (and here another masterpiece of Ivens comes in mind, De Brug, made in 1928), and a monumental close-up of a chess game (Fotolia).

Imre Kinszky never left Hungary, and he died in a concentration camp in 1945 (Fotolia).

(Modernism in Central Europe)