… 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 …
… were taken by his friend József Plohn (1869–1944), a prominent figure of Hungarian ethnographic photography. The journals and correspondences discovered in 1984 were initially processed by the Tornyai’s first monographer, art historian and Hungarian National Gallery staff member Éva Bodnár, who published her findings in her 1986 volume entitled Tornyai Rediscovered. Her manuscripts and notes for the oeuvre catalogue, along with her documents relating to the transfer of the Tornyai …
… Beke’s interests also extended to intermedial art, i.e. to the interdisciplinary frontiers of photography and film theory, painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture, experimental film, and video. László Beke’s manuscripts and essays in the Archive cover the wide range of his interests in aesthetics, philosophy of art, psychology of art, sociology of art, visual anthropology, intermedia, ethnography, structuralism, linguistics, semantics, semiotics, and visual education. His …
… letters and messages requested by Fábri from the artists she captured, reflecting on the act of photography. /Balázs Zoltán Tóth/
… 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 negatives of the collection to the Photographic Collection of the Museum of …