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Four-wheeled Family Members: The Art of Posing for Photos with Cars
Published: April 12, 2024 02:28
A car and its owner: a well-known, usual pair in family photos. In the photos, we see girlfriends with a defiant gaze, wives with a truly happy smile, or friends joking around. But the dominant presence of cars is never a question. One can’t help but guess…
“How Could Anyone with a Reasonable Mind Come up with Something Like This?” The War and Hungarian Hospital Trains through the Lens of a Photographer at the Don Bend
Published: March 8, 2024 12:57
From the eastern front of World War II, twelve trains operated by the Red Cross brought home hundreds and thousands of wounded Hungarian soldiers, while at constant exposure to attack. The photos of József Reményi, a first lieutenant from Szabolcs County…
Same but Different – Before and After Photos
Published: August 30, 2023 15:38
How much can happen between taking two photographs even when the photographer quickly presses the shutter release button again? We are looking into this question through an expanded selection of before and after photo pairs from Fortepan originally…
A cheap option at luxury restaurants and theater plays glorifying soviet soldiers: this is how the American photographer Harrison Forman saw Hungary in 1960
Published: May 8, 2023 08:28
Even though the American photographer Harrison Forman arrived in Hungary only four years after the 1956 revolution had been drowned in blood, it is not a crushed nation that comes over from his photographs and his notes; it is rather the “happiest barrack”…
On Foot in the City – Public Life Pushed Back to the Sidewalks
Published: March 10, 2023 08:25
Walking is the default means of human motion and transport. For millennia in urban history public life happened on the streets, on squares, in local places, and using these spaces freely and in their entirety was self-evident. It was twentieth-century…
Vending Machines and Self-Service Restaurants in Socialist Hungary
Published: October 12, 2022 09:41
“On November 7, a bar called Mézes Mackó is opening on Rákóczi Street, with the first Jukebox in Budapest, which provides entertainment for only one forint,” this is how a newspaper on October 22, 1956 reported about future automation. The newspaper also…
Insensible Touches – Eszter Babarczy on Photos from the Fortepan Archive
Published: September 5, 2022 17:13
Contemporary philosophy has discovered the human body in the past two decades. This statement leads directly to the question how the human body could be discovered. Wasn’t it there all along, with its heaviness and lightness, with its hunger and pain, for…
Redressed: Brief History of Hungarian Window Display Dressing
Published: August 18, 2022 06:27
The window display is an exhibition: An interesting, sometimes bizarre, sometimes harmonious arrangement of all sorts of objects, that draws our attention: as the Hungarian saying goes, “All for the eyes, but nothing for the hands.” Shop windows sometimes…
Can You Spot the Difference within the Same Photo? The Background to Mysterious Twin Portraits
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Published: July 27, 2022 09:10
One of the most highly priced photos in the world was taken of two seven-year-old sisters. Even the reinterpretations of Diane Arbus’s photo are world-famous. Twins have been intriguing the mind and fantasy of artists, scientists, and lay people alike,…
The Color of All Colors: Writer Attila Bartis on Photos from the Fortepan Archive
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Published: July 19, 2022 20:18
„And pure existence dictates that there is nothing—no love, no bloodshed, no party loyalty, no sexual attraction, no cascade of lava, no volunteer blood donor, no sunset, nothing in which there is life beating, or nothing that is at the brink of being…