There are some countries that draw the whole world’s attention. One of them is definitely Italy. Everybody hungers to see it, travels there if it can be afforded, and once people spend some time in Italy, it is obvious that they take photos. Since photography was invented, millions of photos have been taken of Rome, Venice, Milan, Naples or Calabria. Most part of these photos leaves the country with the people returning to their home, offering no possibility for Italians to see them. Though some of them can be interested in what kind of pictures photographers from Argentina, Honduras or even from Hungary take home about their country, houses or themselves.

This exhibition is a selection from the collection including more than a million items of Hungarian Museum of Photography. Fifty photos are exhibited among works of 20th century’s Hungarian photographers that spent some, shorter or longer time in Italy. They preserved the moment of „there and then” according to their own interest, talent and possibilities on negatives dipped in a light-perspective silver-emulsion. Some of them were pictorial artistic photographers, like Angelo, Aladár Székely, József Pécsi, while others are documentarists, being rather interested in shepherds of Orgosolo and fishermen from Palermo than over-photographed monuments. Representatives of this aspect are János Reismann, Kata Sugár, Márton Munkácsi followed by many others. Vast number of photographers, like F.G. Haller and András Tokaji, were concentrating on idyllic moments of life and took only photographs of objects having artistic aspects. These photos are of importance, too. The above mentioned styles together reflect not only true picture of Italy, but also the famous Hungarian photography. Considering this aspect none of them can be played down.

Palace Falconieri gives optimum atmosphere for presentation of these long-cherished visions. If the few photos on show can elicit your admiration, we kindly ask you to join us and become a partner to establish a new exhibition accompanied by a catalogue with displaying more number of photos, also providing a possibility to present different tendencies in a more accurate way.

Exhibitor artists:

Tamás Féner (1938) F.G. Haller (1898-1954) Kata Kálmán (1909-1978) Márton Munkácsi (1896-1963) János Reismann (1905-1976) Kata Sugár (1910-1943)