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… publications, which is edited by Balázs Zoltán Tóth, 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 …

… into other languages points to the special nature of the concept. In addition to painting and photography, the project brought together architecture, design, film, theater, literature and music. Photographer August Sander’s masterpiece, Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts (People of the 20th Century), established the motif of a cross-section through a society as a structural principle, as an “exhibition within an exhibition”. Together, these two perspectives opened up a broad panorama of German …

… Documentation Centre is closed from 1 til 31 August. See you again in September! Photo credits: The painter István Csók resting in his home (1890s), glass plate negative, i. n.: KEMKI ADK 20144/1979/5

… Sky and the Earth, a Thousand Letters), mail art action, Dresden, 1982. Collage on gelatin silver photograph, colored felt-tip pen. Photographer: Martina Giersch. Courtesy of the artists & Flondor Family Archive. Banner: Petr Štembera: Connection (with Tom Marioni), 1975. Photomechanical reproduction on a card. László Beke Archive, Museum of Fine Arts-KEMKI. Image courtesy of Petr Štembera and KEMKI.

… Fehér (Director of KEMKI); the lecture will be introduced by Balázs Zoltán Tóth, museologist and photo-historian (KEMKI, ADK). The lecture will be given in the English language. Admission is free of charge.