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Budapest, 1973. This photo of a window cleaner comes close to what the great photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson's described as the "decisive moment" - that precise, but fleeting moment, when the visual and emotional elements of a scene come together for just a moment, before vanishing for ever. Kereki took a couple more photos of this scene (numbers 205247 and 205248 in the Fortepan archive), but it is the look on the window cleaner's face and his outstretched arm at this precise moment that really make this photo.
Fortepan [205248] / Sándor Kereki
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Hévíz, 1967. The world's second largest thermal lake is located at Hévíz in western Hungary. It's therapeutic and healing properties have been known for millennia, including by the Romans. Here a group of divers, most likely from the Hungarian armed forces, are using it for training purposes.
Source: Fortepan [15788] / MHSZ
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Balmazújváros, 1977. These four men, from a small town in eastern Hungary, would have seen a great deal of history in their time: two world wars, the dismemberment of their country in 1921, dictatorships, revolutions - the lot.
Source: Fortepan / Urbán Tamás