Satiric Dancer, Paris, 1926
1999.09.01
Like other photographers who took dance as a subject, André Kertész appreciated the ability of the camera to capture "people in motion … the moment when something changes into something else." He made this image in the Paris studio of a fellow Hungarian émigré, the sculptor István Beöthy. The subject is the Hungarian dancer and cabaret performer Magda Förstner. In a playful response to Beöthy's sculpture on the left, she strikes a pose on the couch.