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… Korniss In 2020, Péter Korniss, one of the most influential figures in Hungarian documentary photography, donated his archive of tens of thousands of negatives to the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History. The carefully prepared, information-rich collection provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore and understand the oeuvre of the first Kossuth Prize-winning photographer and to interpret the attitudes of documentary and reportage photography in …

… business involving Austrian and German companies, as well as unclear legal issues, nude photos of beauty queen candidates sold to Western European erotic magazines and a likewise disrobed sculpture of Csilla Molnár.  In other words, in Hungary, the first “product” to be marketed with state backing in the period before the regime change was the female body, not independently of the objectives of party politics. In her lecture, Ágnes Eperjesi discusses the ways in which the …