András Török, The Mai Manó House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary, will present a lecture titled "Why Hungarian Photography Matters: How Hungary provided so many key international photographers through the 20th century."
The lecture attempts to find an answer to the questions: how could Hungary provide so many key actors of the international photography scene in the 20th century? (André Kertész, Brassaï, Robert an Cornell Capa, Martin Munkacsi, László Moholy-Nagy, etc.) What happened to those who stayed, and did not leave? And how has Hungarian photography fared after the emergence of state-owned cultural institutions and the launch of university-level photography education? This lecture will outline three careers: that of Mai Manó (1855-1917), Imre Kinszki (1901-1945) and Péter Korniss (1937-), as well as discuss the development of a prominent, iconic Photo Museum in Budapest to duly represent Hungary’s photographic tradition and regain Hungary’s leading photographic status in Europe.
