‘photography’

… 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 …

… Transformation? Alexei Markin – Images of black people in Soviet Union Uschi Klein – Photography during Romania’s communist period: a missed opportunity or just a past time? 15.30 – 16.00 – Coffee break 16.00 – 18.00 Panel 5: Critical art history in Eastern Europe: gender, labor, and decoloniality Karolina Wilczyńska – Radical Care as Practice of Female Artists in East-Central Europe after 1989 Karolina Majewska Güde – Integrating Artistic Research in …

… 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 …