‘photo archives’
Péter Korniss Archive
Photo history research In 2020 and 2023, Péter Korniss, one of the most influential figures in Hungarian photography, donated 63,000 items from his archives to the Central European Research Institute for Art History. The oeuvre of Korniss, who was the first photographer ever to be awarded the Kossuth Prize, focuses mainly on documenting the disappearing traditional peasant life and culture …
Dóra Halasi
… an archivist and art historian at the Artpool Art Research Center, specialising in audio and video archives, the poster collection, and the associated research service. Since 2007 she has been Artpool’s chief photo and video documenter, and has been responsible for archiving media (video and audio digitalization). Participation in projects: Krisz-Krasz exhibition and conference (PPKE-BTK, 2004). Crosstalk Video Art Festival (2008, 2011 ) – presentations about the video archive of …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Dezső Korniss), 2022
… in front of the Rác Thermal Baths, in the Tabán area of the First District. The black and white photographs showing Dezső Korniss’s (1908–1984) work (KEMKI ADK Inv. No.: 25001/2014/Korniss Dezső/1-3) belong to the public sculpture register, which comprises part of the 500 metres of documents that originally belonged to the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts, but have, since 2014, been kept at ADK’s predecessor, the Data Archives of the Hungarian National Gallery. The mosaic of the …
Judit Radák
Chief Museologist (Photo Archive) Judit Radák graduated from the Art History Program of Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE) in 2003, and from the Portuguese Language and Literature Program of the same university in 2018. She defended her doctoral dissertation on Lajos Vajda’s Pepita Notebooks in 2013. During her 20 years as an educator, she taught at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, the Metropolitan …
Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts
… – Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK). The main portion of the Lectorate’s Archives consists of documentation of public works of art (together with the associated photographic material). The rest of the material is comprised of other documents, including a larger collection of official papers—which were transferred to the Lectorate in 1976—related to the organizational operations and professional activities of the Council of Applied Arts. Furthermore, the archives …