
André Kertész美国, 1894–19851977–1982
Honours, 1977–1982
In 1977 he receives the Mayor’s Award of Honor for Arts and Culture in New York (and again in 1981); in 1980 the Medal of the City of Paris and the first Annual Award of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers; in 1981 an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Bard College; and in 1982 the National Grand Prize of Photography in Paris and the 21st Annual George Washington Award from the American Hungarian Foundation.
1979
Polaroid gives him an SX-70 camera
The Polaroid Corporation gives him one of its new SX-70 cameras, which he experiments with into the 1980s.
1980
Arnaud Maggs’s portrait mosaic
Kertész sits for the Canadian artist Arnaud Maggs, resulting in the large-scale portrait project André Kertész, 144 Views (1980), which, according to Maggs, Kertész described as a “portrait mosaic”.