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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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Vác,1960. Hungary's only triumphal arch, built in 1764 in honour of the visit by the Habsburg Maria Theresa who was at that time was the queen of Hungary. The story goes that the arch was so newly built when she arrived that, fearing it might collapse, she refused to ride through it.
The car in the photo is an East German AWZ P70 "Zwickau".
Source: Foretpan [178231] / Bojár Sándor
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