Attila HORÁNYI -art historian, professor at MOME University of Arts and Design Budapest – Six artists, six approaches, six decades Hungarian photography since the 1960s

Attila HORÁNYI -art historian, professor at MOME University of Arts and Design Budapest – Six artists, six approaches, six decades Hungarian photography since the 1960s

The talk’s rather bold aim is to paint a broad picture of recent Hungarian photography. However, as it is a nearly impossible task for one lecture, I’ve decided to pick six artists who are largely representative of various approaches to photography in the past decades. Péter Korniss, Gábor Kerekes, Antal Jokesz, Dezső Szabó, Péter Pettendi Szabó, and Kriszta Erdei will be the protagonists of the lecture that will show how classic documentarism, and its critique, photographic representation, and its critique, the theory and the ethics of the medium have shaped recent Hungarian photography. Besides considering these artistic approaches, the talk will also suggest strategies of looking at and interpreting the oeuvre of the various photographers.