Károly Kincses-Péter Szabó-Gyula Munkácsy-Pál Greguss-Zoltán Fejér-Magdolna Kolta:
Light-created images. Science – Technology and Technique – Art.
Photographic innovation and art in Hungary 1839–2001
CD-ROM, published in co-operation with the Hungarian Patent Office, 2002, 2.500HUF
”Is it possibility in the history of culture to present scientific progress, technological innovation
with equal measures to the art-work produced as a result of it, or to the art-historical development
brought about by these art-works?” The CD-ROM is trying to give an answer to this question, while
examining the connection between photographic innovation and art in Hungary, from 1930 until today.
There is no other brunch of art, depending as much in its development on the progresses of physics,
chemistry, optics and other sciences, not other art, where the ready product had so much effect on the
technology it was mad with. This CD-ROM is important, because it attempts to re-establish a scattered
world-balance, even if its temporary, in limited space and time, in the field of Hungarian photography.
It binds Science, Technology, and Art into one bundle. Science, which made it possible for men to
create a latent or a real image on photosensitive material, through the means of optics. By this it
duplifies the world, which is captured by chemical means, conserving the moment, us, surviving almost
everything and advertising: we existed. Technology, which has used the results of science to create the
tools, the objects, the techniques for recording images, has given birth to photography. Art has been
created and captured with the means of these tools.