# Event Details - **Event Name**: Patricia Albers — 'Everything Is Photograph: A Life of André Kertész' - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 08:30 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: The first full biography of the innovative “father of modern photography.”About this EventThird Place Books welcomes writer and art historian Patricia Albers to our Ravenna store for a conversation about her new book . In this groundbreaking biography, Albers follows the "father of modern photography" from his upbringing in Budapest to Jazz Age Paris to postwar New York; from tragedy to romance to legacy.This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured books!Tickets:This event is free to attend. Registration is recommended in advance.Please note: While RSVP helps us anticipate attendance, your RSVP may not guarantee a seat. Seating is first-come, first-served, and all events at our Ravenna neighborhood store are free and open to the public. Only standing room may be available for events with high interest.We are happy to accommodate any accessibility concerns. Please contact us at events@thirdplacebooks.com or call our Ravenna store at (206) 525-2347.About Everything Is Photograph. . .The first full biography of the innovative “father of modern photography” vividly depicts his life and works, from Hungary to France and America, across the 20th century.Born in Budapest in 1894, André Kertész soared to star status in Jazz Age Paris, tumbled into poverty and obscurity in wartime New York, slogged through 15 years shooting for House & Garden, then improbably reemerged into the spotlight with a 1964 retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. By the time of his death in 1985, he had exhibited around the world, taken more than 100,000 images, and steered the medium in new and vital directions: He was the first major photographer to embrace the Leica, the camera now mythically linked to street photography, and he pioneered subjective photojournalism, publishing what is arguably the world’s first great photo essay.Drawing on dozens of interviews, previous scholarship, and deep archival research, and interrogating the images themselves, Patricia Albers retrieves aspects of Kertész’s life that he and his pictures gloss over, among them the ordeals of trench warfare, the impact of the Holocaust, and the tale of his tangled romances. She takes Kertész from the Eastern front in World War I to the Paris of Piet Mondrian, Colette, Alexander Calder, and a lively central European diaspora. From Condé Nast’s postwar media empire to the “photo boom” of the 1970s. She revisits Kertész’s relationships with other photographers, among them his "frenemy" Brassaï and protégé Robert Capa. She breathes life into a gentle, generous, and unassuming man endowed with Old-World charm but also sputtering with grievance and rage and inclined to indulge in deception.Everything Is Photograph immerses readers in the heyday of a now lost version of photography. Formally vigorous, emotionally rich, and aesthetically charged, Kertész’s images speak of the medium as a tool for human connection, self-narration, self-invention, and inquiry about the world, even as they project its mysteries.Patricia Albers is a California-based writer, editor, and art historian. She is the author of Joan Mitchell, Lady Painter: A Life, the acclaimed first biography of the abstract painter. Her previous books include Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti and Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance. Albers’s essays, art reviews, and features have appeared in numerous museum catalogs and publications, including SquareCylinder, San Francisco Magazine, the San Jose Mercury News, and the New York Times. She has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities and a juror for the Biographers International Plutarch Award.About Third Place BooksFounded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/seattle/patricia-albers-—-everything-is-photograph-a-life-of-andré-kertész/100001985014029397 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, photography, music, entertainment, sports, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 1 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Seattle - **state**: WA - **country**: United States - **location**: Third Place Books Ravenna - **lat**: 47.6759975 - **long**: -122.3063751 - **full address**: Third Place Books Ravenna, 6504 20th Avenue Northeast, Seattle, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Patricia Albers — 'Everything Is Photograph: A Life of André Kertész' - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/90ec19d8ccc142cea9dc8623ca331bec9403b63f89f4e8aa3ecdf882c1231334-rimg-w1200-h628-dce1ded7-gmir.jpg?v=1773410105 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Patricia Albers — 'Everything Is Photograph: A Life of André Kertész' being held? - **A:** Patricia Albers — 'Everything Is Photograph: A Life of André Kertész' takes place on Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 08:30 pm at Third Place Books Ravenna, 6504 20th Avenue Northeast, Seattle, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Patricia Albers — 'Everything Is Photograph: A Life of André Kertész'? - **A:** Patricia Albers — 'Everything Is Photograph: A Life of André Kertész' is organized by Third Place Books. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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