‘photo history’
Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts
… in the collection of the Museum of Fine 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 …
Balázs Zoltán Tóth
Chief Museologist (Photo Archive) He graduated in 2005 from the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature at SZTE BTK and from the Department of Cultural Organising and Media at SZTE-JGYTFK. From 2008 to 2010 he was a student at The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava. In 2013, he was a fellow at NEDCC, Andover, USA. In 2019, he received his PhD in …
Daguerreotypes in the Collection of KEMKI ADK
… This series is particularly special because it is the earliest surviving example of documentary photography in Hungary. The daguerreotypes in this series document art objects and the exact date and location of the daguerreotypes of the series are also known, as well as the sponsor and the creator. Their value is also enhanced by the fact that the pictures were taken outdoors in the yard of the artist's house in Buda, and one of them shows a full portrait of the sculptor. István Ferenczy …
György Cséka
… editor of the online publication Fotopost. From 2009 to 2010, he was head of the Studio of Young Photographers. From 2009 to 2011, he taught the theory and history of photography at Fotografus Foundation School of Photography. In 2017, he taught a course on the theory and history of photography at the Doctoral School of the University of Theatre and Film Arts. From 2019 to 2020, he was managing editor at the online photography magazine www.punkt.hu . His research interests include …
György Tóth: Portraits (1985–1991)
Rudolf Balogh Prize-winning photographer György Tóth is a prominent figure of contemporary Hungarian photography. Over the last thirty years his signature slow shutter studies of the human body in motion have been the central component of his oeuvre. Before the 1990s, Tóth was still engaged in documentary photography. Portraits 1985–1991 is an important series from this period in several respects. He donated the …