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What is striking about this scene, which remains virtually unchanged today, is the large number of fishermen and spectators. It is a typically melancholy gray winter day. The water in the Seine is a little high, a normal seasonal occurrence. André Kertész had moved from his native Hungary to this Parisian neighborhood by the river only a few weeks before the photograph was made. He had few friends there and wandered around making pictures, unable to connect with people because he could not speak a word of French. This image expresses how he must have felt at the time, alone in the city on the brink of a new life. . . . - Stuart Alexander, Independent Curator and Scholar Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online :: View more Photography and Media Arts
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