‘photo history’
Zsuzsa G. Fábri's Artist Portrait Collection
… School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1952, where she studied under such prominent Hungarian photographers as József Pécsi, Klára Langer, Mariann Reismann, and Jenő Sevcsik. Although she had originally intended to become a reporter, she eventually realised that it did not fit her disposition. As a full-time mother, she decided to compile a series of portraits of her former teachers for a jubilee volume celebrating the bicentenary of the founding of her alma mater. Although the volume …
The Estate of Lajos Vajda
… to the ADK archives of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History. These were the documents that Stefánia Mándy used for writing the Vajda monograph published in 1983. Among the written sources, special mention should be given to the letters and postcards written to Julia Vajda between 1936 and 1941, most of which were published by Jakovits and Kozák in 1996. Also of great interest are the three notebooks used by the artist in the 1920s and …
The Estate of Lajos Tihanyi
… that were left behind in his Paris studio were taken by his friends—Brassaï (Gyula Halász), the photographer, Jacques de la Frégonnière, and Ervin Preiss Marton—who divided Tihanyi’s entire estate among themselves and kept it in their studios and apartments for decades. Over the years, they always agreed that it should eventually end up in a place worthy of its significance, a museum in Hungary. As their first choice fell on the Hungarian National Gallery, they contacted the museum as well …
Stratification of an Archive: Possible Approaches to the Oeuvre of Péter Korniss
The publication is related to research on the history of photography conducted by KEMKI ADK. It contains extended and edited texts from the presentations given at the conference entitled Stratification of an Archive: Possible Approaches to the Oeuvre of Péter Korniss. The diversely themed essays in the volume provide new interpretations of attitudes that prevailed in Hungarian documentary photography and photojournalism in the …
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 …