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In the Fresh edition you can see pictures by architect László Csaba and by photojournalist Imre Prohászka. The only connection between the two authors is that they both took photographs during the socialist period. László Csaba has taken thousands of slides on his travels in Europe and South America, mostly of contemporary modern buildings and landmark buildings. His photographs can be seen as an architect's inspiration diary, while he also documented his own designs here at home. Imre Prohászka photographed traffic "emergencies" in Budapest as a photographer for the long-forgotten National Council for Traffic Safety. Pipe bursts, heavy snowfalls, children running after a bus, a broken down tram or a traffic jam on the Grand Boulevard in Budapest. Their respective oeuvres were arranged side by side by chance, but both are important for understanding the dull, sardonic Kádár era.
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„And pure existence dictates that there is nothing—no love, no bloodshed, no party loyalty, no sexual attraction, no cascade of lava, no volunteer blood donor, no sunset, nothing in which there is life beating, or nothing that is at the brink of being devoured by non-existence but holds on to life tightly still—that you could picture easily without the color red.” The Color of All Colors: Writer Attila Bartis on Photos from the Fortepan Archive appeared first on Weekly Fortepan.
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