I recently attended the Andre Kertesz exhibit at the LA County Museum of
Art (scheduled until September 5).  The exhibit evidenced a beautifully
inventive photographic mind.

First a rant.  Museums - Light up the prints, will ya?  Don't blow out
the highlights, but give us enough light so that the shadows have some
transparency.  It's pollution that's gonna kill that print. Not light.

The first room contained the early photos which appeared to be contact
prints from medium format negatives.  I found this novel and interesting
although i had to take my glasses off and get within 6 inches to see the
prints well.

In the second room most of the work was done in Paris or New York. The
prints were probably enlarged although I don't recall seeing prints
larger than 8x10. Many were 4x5 or 5x7.

In the final prints, Kertesz returned to a smaller format, working with
a Polaroid SX-70.

IMHO

You can look up a bio of Kertesz on the internet. To me, these prints
are some of the best I have ever seen as far as content, composition,
inventiveness and viewpoint of the camera.  It all looks natural and
uncontrived.  His work never says "Look at how clever I am to photograph
this way."  Instead he seems to ask "Don't you think this viewpoint is
fun/wonderful/intriguing/fascinating?"  He exhibits an early joy for
life and always seems to have a sense of humor, although his work in the
US seems to be printed too darkly and some of the composition is a
little threatening. (Could be the lighting and could be that he was
depressed about his day job.)

My two favorite prints.
  One print shows a room and a staircase.  The edge of the wall of the
room divides the room from the staircase.  The division is placed in the
precise middle of the print.  At first look it appears as if he had cut
two prints and mounted them side by side.  Then you look more closely
and realize it is one scene and one print.
  Second print is a picture of his brother caught leaping in mid-air.
This is one of the early mf contact prints.  The sky, the hill top, the
shrubs or trees and the Pan-like silhouette of the leaping figure
combine to fascinate me.  From memory, the size of the print is about
2.5x3.5 in.

There is also the print of the woman on a divan with a statue on the
side table to the right and a framed picture on the wall to the left.
I can't remember who, but someone who may know, called this print the
most perfectly composed photo ever made.  The print itself is certainly
no bigger that 5x7.

I know I like an exhibit when I wish I could take prints with me. I
wanted to take a lot of these home.