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• Four-wheeled Family Members: The Art of Posing for Photos with Cars

  Apr 12, 2024

  A car and its owner: a well-known, usual pair in family photos. In the photos, we see girlfriends with a defiant gaze, wives with a truly happy smile, or friends joking around. But the dominant presence of cars is never a question. One can’t help but guess what could have gone through the minds of all those people who had their photos taken with their cars over the past century.

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• “How Could Anyone with a Reasonable Mind Come up with Something Like This?” The War and Hungarian Hospital Trains through the Lens of a Photographer at the Don Bend

  Mar 8, 2024

  From the eastern front of World War II, twelve trains operated by the Red Cross brought home hundreds and thousands of wounded Hungarian soldiers, while at constant exposure to attack. The photos of József Reményi, a first lieutenant from Szabolcs County serving at the commissary, provide a rare insight into the little-known world of hospital trains, into the relationship between occupiers and the civilian population, and into the fate of Jews conscripted to forced labor. The war from the perspective of a good-hearted, average man.

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• Same but Different

  Aug 30, 2023

  Before and After Photos

  How much can happen between taking two photographs even when the photographer quickly presses the shutter release button again? We are looking into this question through an expanded selection of before and after photo pairs from Fortepan originally featured at the Hungarian National Gallery's 2019 exhibition titled Every Past is My Past.

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• A cheap option at luxury restaurants and theater plays glorifying soviet soldiers: this is how the American photographer Harrison Forman saw Hungary in 1960

  May 8, 2023

  Even though the American photographer Harrison Forman arrived in Hungary only four years after the 1956 revolution had been drowned in blood, it is not a crushed nation that comes over from his photographs and his notes; it is rather the “happiest barrack” of the Soviet Bloc.

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