Lot Essay
(But) the photographs, although direct and almost artless, are actually very sophisticated. ...There is a surprising, and disquieting, tenderness between the puppets themselves, and their masters. ...Though they purport to document folk culture, they also reflect the surrealist fascination with the manikin, the shadow and the mirror as metaphors of human reality. (Sandra Phillips, The Marionette Photographs by André Kertész.)