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“Pages from the history of Hungarian photography”
Károly Kincses:
The photographer, architect, painter Iván Vydareny
2000, 156 pages, 130 pictures, with English summary, HUF 3.000
Architect, photographer and painter, specialist. Beyond this, in the
period between the two world wars, the most prominent organizing intellect of Hungarian art-
photography. During his life he produced many –several ten thousand– artistic creations. He painted
watercolors, oil paintings, and drawings, from the early 1900’s until the end of his life. The quality
of these are in no way inferior to his photographic creations. Dozens of buildings in Budapest and the
countryside exhibit his architectural talent, artistic vein and precision as an architect.
As an
artist, but also as an organizer of the life of photography of his time, he has earned our
appreciation. He becomes a member of the Association of Hungarian Amateur Photographers in June of
1914. He is co-editor, then editor in chief of the Photo Arts News (Fotómuvészeti Hírek). He wrote more
than a hundred professional articles, during the 1920’s he taught the most varied elements of
photography and secrets of optics and various permanent processes. He pursued on a high level, all
permanent processes and soft-focus photography. The monograph presents his photographic and painting
oeuvre.