PARIS, FRANCE.- Maison Européenne de la Photographie presents The Odyssey of an Icon. Three Photographs by André Kertész, on view through December 31, 2006. Drawing from the André Kertész archive, which was bequeathed to the French state in 1985 and is managed and conserved by the Médiathèque de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, this exhibition explores the history of three images from the artist's Parisian period : Chez Mondrian (1926), Study of a Fork (1928) and Distortion n° 6 (1933).

These images have appeared in so many magazines, newspapers and catalogues that they have become twentieth century photographic icons. The exhibition looks at the context in which they were taken and the different stages of production (negatives, variants and original contact prints), Vintage prints and variants from the collections of the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Musée national d'Art Moderne in Paris, will also be on display.

Curator : Anne de Mondenard, Médiathèque de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine. Catalogue published by Actes Sud and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, with the assistance of Canson-Arches paper (Arjowiggins group). Exhibition produced in collaboration with the Médiathèque de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, based on the Kertész donation to the Ministry of Culture; distribution by the Jeu de paume.