Iván Hevesy
(Kapuvár, 1893. December 7th - Budapest, 1966. January 29th)
He might have been the most influential teacher of Hungarian history of photography, aesthetics and technology. Additionally, he was a professional writer, literary translator, critique, photographer, art-historian, music-historian, lector, an important figure of the Hungarian avantgard, the husband of Kata Kálmán...is there more to fit in a man’s life?

Kata Kálmán
(Korpona, 1909. April 25th - Budapest, 1978 March 31st)
“Bitter and beautiful faces, men and women, even children, they all enchant with the perfection of the artistic caption, and with the expressing force of the faces. Even though the poverty is clearly visible in the photographs of Kata Kálmán, they express the unsteelable dignity of human existence.” – written by Iván Boldizsár on the pictures in the Tiborc-album.
Instead of experienced, thoroughly examined and analysed thoughts there are countless stereotypes related to both Iván Hevesy and Kata Kálmán. Iván Hevesy was an art historian, writer, author of numerous books, studies, essays on art and photography, Kata Kálmán is the author of the album entitled ‘ Tiborc’ , portrait and socio-photographer. It would have been quite an easy job to arrange an exhibition built on these clischés. Selecting the pictures and writing the biographies made it obvious how much the lives of these two people were interrelated. Sometimes they run in paralell: they went everywhere together, took photographs together, lived their experiences. Some other times they lived complementary: what one of them did not, could not do, the other took it upon, completing an otherwise unfinished thing. Iván Hevesy taught Kata Kálmán to take photographs. Kata proved to be an excellent student, soon the master had to pull himself together to be up to the mark. Iván had problems with his eyes, the development and enlargement of his pictures was done by Kata. Iván was more theoretic, he entitled Kata's pictures, it was also his idea to give the title ‘ Tiborc’ to Kata's album. While Iván could work, he earned enough money so that Kata could stay at home to do her artistic work. When in 1947 Iván was pensioned off, Kata had to earn money. From that time on her artistic photographs diminished. Two oeuvres in a very close relation, that cannot be complete without one another, found each other in the exhibition and on the pages of the monography.