SUMMARY– 2023/4
Szabolcs Barakonyi: Sándor Kereki is not an amateur, but a self-taught photographer.
Sándor Kereki was not and did not want to be part of the artistic world of the seventies and eighties. As a self-taught photographer, he roamed the streets of Budapest, taking his pictures, which he sent to international exhibitions. His career as a photographer dates from 1968 to 1980. In his article, Szabolcs Barakonyi, who is the best acquainted with Sándor Kereki's legacy, argues that if street photography had been a recognised genre in the 1970s, Sándor Kereki would have been one of the most prominent representatives of this movement.
Judit Csatlós: Sensory archives - Les Recontres d’Arles – 2023
Judit Csatlós' article deals with an American and a French archive, both were exhibited in Arles. The American archive gives an insight into the life of a men's community. The French archive shows what workers who came to France thought was essential to communicate with their distant family relatives.
Gábor Ébli: Saving time – Selection from the Collection of János Krasznai János and Gábor Zsigmond
Friends since early childhood, photographers János Krasznai and Gábor Zsigmond opened their exhibition space cum café, devoted to analogue photography, four years ago. Named after the one-time massive municipal photo agency (1961-1993), Főfotó showcases their growing collection, too.
Zsuzsa Farkas: Wedding photographs through a collector's eye
A wedding is one of the most photographed events. The joy of the moment intertwines with the need to make memories and leave an imprint. Weddings are hard to photograph in a way that avoids the photographer's clichés. Zsuzsa Farkas shares her thoughts on some exicting images from her collection with the reader.
Zoltán Fejér: The Maharajah's Camera
In this article, Zoltán Fejér introduces the reader to the story of a unique camera.
András Lengyel: Attila József in Csillebérce - Some lessons from a serial visual document
András Lengyel's study analyses the pictures of an excursion in 1931, which Attila Józefy and his circle of friends attended. The author attempts to reconstruct the course of the excursion and the order in which the pictures were taken on the basis of the available data.
Miklós Peternák: Savage vision – About the Hórusz Archive
Private photo collections can provide an accurate insight into when and what ordinary people used the camera's image-making power. They show changes in interests and the values and chronicles of everyday life so they could provide microhistories of individuals or small groups. Miklós Peternák has selected and commented on some images from one of the oldest Hungarian private photo collections, the Horusz Archive.
Zsófia Somogyi: All landscapes - in never-before-seen images – Aitotype, Sári Zagyvai
A magyar fotográfusok is egymás után próbálják ki az AI nyújtotta lehetőségeket képek alkotására. Zagyvai Sári munkáiról, melyek a B32 Galériában kerültek bemutatásra, Somogyi Zsófi írt, egy szélesebb kontextusba helyezve az alkotót és a műveket is.
Mihály Surányi: About an exhibition - Daido Moriyama
The article records the impressions of a retrospective exhibition of Daido Moriyama's works.
Noémi B. Tier: Imaginary time - Gergely Szatmári: Tiger in Moonlight
Gergely Szatmári last presented his works at the Faur Zsófi Gallery in Budapest. It was from this context that Noémi B. Tier talked to him. The conversation aimed not only to present the current material of the exhibition but rather to present it as an integral part of Szatmári's oeuvre. The conversation is more about the ideological issues of Szatmári and about the was how he trying to respond to them. So the text touches on some earlier series as well, to present the way of thinking of the photographer.
Olivér Tóth: "With my works I would like to point out the magic of reality" - Conversation with Máté Bartha
Máté Bartha's first works were shown to the public in 2009. Regardless of which of his series we look at, we have to take into account that Máté Bartha has strong criticisms of today's society. He is consistent and persistent. He can keep his distance from the subject, but he also knows exactly, how this distancing approach creates tensions in the viewer. His exhibitions and installations are always events. On the occasion of her winning the Budapest Photography Scholarship, Olivér Tóth László interviewed her.
