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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 post-WWII …
György Cséka
… 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 contemporary photography and art theory. He has been working at KEMKI since …
Péter Korniss Archive
… 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 of Eastern Europe (mainly Transylvania). As part of the archive, the KEMKI has also received the complete …
Balázs Zoltán Tóth
… 2011 until 2013. From 2005 until 2019 he worked as a research associate at the Hungarian Museum of Photography, and from 2018 to 2019 as curator at the Mai Manó House. He has been a member of the Hungarian Society for the History of Photography since 2020. He has taught at several universities and is currently a guest lecturer at the Metropolitan University. As of 2022, he is the Chief Museologist of the Photo Archive of KEMKI Archive and Documentation Center (ADK). List of publications …
Imre Kiss
Digitalization Assistant (Technical Group) Imre Kiss is a graduate of the Photography Program of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Kaposvár, (2018). He worked as an exhibition coordinator at Mai Manó House and then at acb Gallery, where he was responsible for the background work for exhibitions and art fairs. In 2018, he was awarded a grant by the Association of Hungarian Photographers, and became a member of the Studio of Young Photographers (FFS). He has …