ERVIN MARTON 1912-1968

PICASSO, COCTEAU, CHAPLIN, LOUIS ARMSTRONG, CHAGALL AND CAMUS BY MARTON.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, he moved to France in 1937 and when the war broke out, as part of the FTP-MOI, joined the French Resistance. Besides his extensive graphic, painting, and sculpture work, he specialized in street photography – he admired Atget. Living in post-war Paris gave him the opportunity to take portraits of Gaston Bachelard, Paul Léautaud, Blaise Cendrars, Jacques Prévert, Yves Montand, Juliette Gréco, Foujita, Marcel Jouhandeau, and many others.
He was friends with other Hungarian emigrés such as Brassai and Kertész. Cendrars called him “l’as du noir et du blanc” (the ace of black and white).

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The poet and novelist Blaise Cendrars called him “l’as du noir et blanc” – the champ of black and white photography.
“an extraordinary poetry and quality/une qualité et une poésie extraordinaire”
Marta Gili – Jeu de Paume Museum Director/Directrice du Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris

His works are in the National Gallery Museum in Budapest, as well as in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

His body of photographs starts in his native Hungary with portraits of Hungarian Roma and landscapes.
Later living in Paris, he specializes in street scenes and French landmarks, as well as in portraits of artists and intellectuals (Picasso, Chagall, Cocteau, Léautaud, Mauriac, Jacques Prévert, Darius Milhaud, Albert Schweitzer, Jean Genet, Albert Camus, Chaplin, Gaston Bachelard, Yves Montand, Juliette Gréco, Leonor Fini, Foujita, Marcel Jouhandeau, and many others.
In 1959, he publishes Paris m’a souri, a portrait of Paris, with the poet Maurice Fombeure.
One of the photographers he admired was Atget.

 

• THIS IS AN ELEMENTARY GALLERY OF HIS ART/PHOTOS  – AND THE START OF THE ERVIN MARTON WEBSITE!
• Many photographs are viewable on the Hungarian Museum of Photography website (enter Marton Ervin into their search engine).
• 15 photographs from the Wells Fargo Collection
• One 1937 pastel self-portrait, as an homage to El Gréco.
• Some photographs are viewable through the Los Angeles-based Stephen Cohen Gallery which represents his estate.
• A couple more are here: an antique shop and a street corner.

 

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