‘photo history’
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Gyöngyi Károly
… Gallery. Since 2019, she has been working as a Chief Museum Archivist at the institution’s Photo Archive, tasked with the processing, archival and conservation of the photography collection. In 2016, she graduated from Pázmány Péter Catholic University with a Master’s Degree in Art History. In 2015, she worked as an intern at the Association of Hungarian Photographers / Studio of Young Photographers. Her photographic interests are in the field of portrait photography.