#fortepan — Public Fediverse posts
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Hungary, 1958
Another fine photo by Szentkuthy of everyday people.
Source: Fortepan [286934] / Ibolya Szentkuthy
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Hungary, 1970
Reading the newspaper.
Source: Fortepan [267452] / Ibolya Szentkuthy
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Hungary, 1954
Summer reading.
Source: Fortepan [286919] / Ibolya Szentkuthy
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Budapest, 1962
A young man in quiet contemplation by the Danube.
Source: Fortepan [286898] / Ibolya Szentkuthy
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Hungary, 1976
The new school year will begin next week in Hungary, marking the end of summer holidays. Boo!
Source: Fortepan [267361] / Ibolya Szentkuthy
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Hungary, 1977
Szentkuthy was a professional photographer during the Communist era who specialised in photographing daily life and public spaces. This is a moving portrait of old age.
Source: Fortepan [267310] / Ibolya Szentkuthy
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Today, 20 August, is St Stephen’s Day, celebrating the founding of Hungary in 1000 AD by King Stephen I. During the communist era (1949–1989), with no religious overtones allowed, it was celebrated as Constitution Day and the Festival of the New Bread, the latter because August marks the traditional end of the summer harvest. In 1990, the holiday reverted to St Stephen’s Day—though traditions like Budapest's massive fireworks display and various air and nautical displays on and over the Danube, as shown here in 1988, continued.
Source: Fortepan [67191] / Magyar Rendőr (Hungarian Police)
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Hungary, 1964
The Dinner Ladies was an all too short British sitcom created by the wonderful Victoria Wood. There were only 16 episodes but each one was perfectly set and executed. This photo reminds me very much of that series!
Source: Fortepan [110540] / Sándor Bauer
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Paks, 1979
Workers on the construction of Hungary's only nuclear power plant located in the town of Paks on the Danube river, some 120 kilometres south of Budapest. The plant is about to be shut down for the first time its 44 year history due to low river levels, meaning there isn't enough water to cool the reactors.
Source: [89226] / Tamás Urbán
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Budapest,1961
These images are another example of how Mácsai used his photos of everyday life on the streets of Budapest to form the basis for his painting. Here we can elements from these three photos in the final artwork: the street cleaner in one, the phone box and bus stop sign in another, and the woman in the plaid skirt, and the trams in the background. He has added different elements and people as well to form one of his most distinctive works.
Source: Fortepan [313715] [313719] [313718] / István Mácsai
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Budapest,1963
Many of Mácsai's photos would form the basis for his paintings. This photo is a fine example - it would become the painting Young People of Pest a few years later in 1965. The double-necked guitar and the young man in the foreground are painted as is in the photo.
Source: Fortepan [313612] / István Mácsai
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Paris*, 1957
A wonderful portrait of four women who are of an age and demeanour that suggest that they are not to be taken lightly.
Source: Fortepan [313582] / István Mácsai
#fortepan #portrait #StreetPhotography
* The location isn't given on Fortepan , but there are many other photos of Paris by Mácsai at this time so I have made an assumption this photo was also taken in Paris.
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Paris, 1960
Reading the news. Another fine photo by István Mácsai that forms part of a new collection on Fortepan. Máscai (1922-2005) was a Hungarian painter but as we can see in this and other photos, he was also a highly accomplished photographer.
Source: Fortepan [313584] / István Mácsai
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Hungary, 1952
Quiet contemplation. This is something jarring about the clean high quality traditional folk clothing the woman is wearing, and the cigarette. No doubt 70-odd years ago it wouldn't have seemed so.
Source: Fortepan [313562] / István Mácsai
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Budapest VIII, 1957
Stepping out into the big wide world.
Source: Fortepan [191939] / Géza Kriss
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Balatonfüred, Hungary, 1976
Nothing like doing PE outside on a wet day.
Source: Fortepan [187860] / Béla Szalay
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Hungary, 1968
I like the smiles of the two women in this photo. They seem to be enjoying the slightly flirtatious nature of the conversation.
But it is the older man in the far left that really draws the eye. He is staring at the camera with an almost menacing absence of any joy in his face. It is a cold hard stare. Clearly his flirtation days are well and truly over. You wonder why he is there. There is an unhappiness about him in contrast to the smiling women.
Source: Fortepan [5921] / Fortepan
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Hungary, 1919
Just a few mates having a beer together.
The year is what makes this photo especially interesting - 1919. The Austro-Hungarian Empire had collapsed and was in chaos, having suffered a catastrophic defeat in WWI a few months earlier. The influenza epidemic was in full swing, and its impact was no doubt exacerbated by the brief and ill-fated Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. In August, Romanian troops briefly occupied Budapest. And a year later in 1920, Hungary would be dismembered by the Treaty of Trianon, losing two-thirds of its territory and one-third of its population. I guess this was a moment of friendship and normality while the world around them was being turned upside down.
Fortepan [2642] / Fortepan
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Hatvan, Hungary, 1960
In Hungarian, 'hatvan' means sixty. There is also a town called Hatvan, whose main bus station is shown here, which just happens to be about sixty kilometres from Budapest. Legend has it that the town was so named because of this, but evidence suggests the town was called something similar in medieval times, well before the kilometre was delineated as such. Still, it is a nice story.
Source: Fortepan [2689] / UVATERV
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Hungary, 1975
The sign says, "The dog bites". Hungary's equivalent of 'Beware of the Dog' and are everywhere.
Fortepan [77824] / Ed Sijmons
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Budapest XI, 1978
Looks like these people are pretty keen for that tram to arrive.
Fortepan [288858] / Imre Prohászka
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Budapest, VIII District, 1980
The last couple of photos from the Fortepan have been by Imre Prohászka. He has over 600 photos in the collection. That's mainly because he was the official photographer of the National Traffic Safety Council and his job was to document Budapest's transit ecosystem: traffic jams, winter blizzards, and, like here apparently, broken-down trams!
Source: Fortepan [288843] / Imre Prohászka
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Hungary, 1980
The thinker. Or possibly someone who had a big night out!
Source: Fortepan [289178] / Imre Prohászka
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Hungary, 1982
This group is most likely a group of city street sweepers.
Source: Fortepan [288821] / Imre Prohászka
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Szentendre, Hungary, 1980
Sweeping the courtyard.
Source: Fortepan [291293] / Gábor Szerényi
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Uzbekistan, Bukhara, 1969
The knife sharpener.
Source: Fortepan [195898] / Sándor Bojár
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Uzbekistan, Samarkand, 1969
The bean seller.
Source: Fortepan [195035] / Sándor Bojár