Linked journeys. Hungarian photographs from around the world
2001, 148 pages, 94 pictures in Hungarian–English, HUF 4.500
True to its title, the reader can take part in two separate journeys at the same time. First of all he
or she is presented an overview on a vesatile world, which has been photographed by Hungarian
photographers throughout the last 160 years, secondly he or she is given an insight on an untouched
segment of the world-famous Hungarian photography. The unexplored thesis question of this volume is the
following: How and what did Hungarian photographers, or photographers of Hungarian origin see and
capture in the world, since the invention of photography? The first image of the collection would be a
picture taken by Pál Rosti in1857 on his expedition in South-America. The volume will end with a work
by a contemporary photographer. Between the two endings, the reader will find 94 photographs, which are
not merely showing tourist attractions, but transmitting the atmosphere, the intellect of a given
country, through the eyes of Hungarian photographers. The selection contains photographs by André
Kertész, Márton Munkácsi, Robert and Cornell Capa, Ferenc Berkó, József Pécsi, F. G. Haller, Angelo,
János Reismann, Márta Rédner, Miklós Rév and others, whose autonomous art-works, produced abroad, cover
a significant segment of their life-works. The volume, which has been published in Hungarian, and in
English, is supplemented by a short study by Károly Kincses, and the biography of the photographers.