Satiric Dancer, Magda Förster
/André Kertész
negative date 192 | print date 1980
Hungarian, 1894-1985
Gelatin silver print
Art Resource Trust Purchase
Polk Museum of Art Permanent Collection 2011.5
André Kertész is known for his photographs of contorted bodies, most notably for his images of nudes distorted by funhouse mirrors. Here, the artist shows good humor in juxtaposing his clothed model, twisted in a contrivedly uncomfortable pose with a twisting nude torso at far left. We are offered the model’s name and profession via the photograph’s title, but the rest of this satiric dancer’s story and that of the photographer’s experience taking this photograph are left wholly up to you to create.