Károly Hemző- Hemzőtown
„Hemző gained a reputation as a sports photographer in the Hungarian press of the 50's. His whole career has been in photojurnalism, despite the fact that he has also taken gastronomic pictures and public knows him best for his excellent food photography. Yet Hemző consideres himself, first and foremost a chronicler of historic events great and small. His oeuvre spans several decades and consists of numerous subjects and styles from sports photography, reports on artistic events and pictures of the city, to his famous pictures of horses. He is a significant figure in the history of Hungarian photography, not just as a creative artist, but also as a picture editor and as an active contributor to Hungarian photography over a long period. „
In this exhibition one can mainly enjoy his black & white pictures of the city, Budapest.
„It is no coincidence that in late 2010 Károly Hemző chose his pictures of the capital as the basis for his latest exhibition entitled HEMZŐTOWN. Even after his 1983 exhibition, his curiosity regarding Budapest and its inhabitants did not cease. He still photographed the everyday events of the city in the new millenium whenever his legs and lungs allowed. His oeuvre of several decades offeres historians much to research, nostalgic feelings for the ordinary man in the street, lessons for the younger generation and a great deal for aesthetes and historians of photography to appriciate. The pictures of seemingly banal and ordinary street scenes, even the deserted sqares and streets, tell complex and human stories, difficult to put into words, yet offering a totality”.
„ The HEMZŐTOWN exhibition is an unusual one. It is a celebration. The occasion behind it is that the photographer, Károly Hemző, has donated several tens of thousands of his photographs to the Hungarian National Museum Historic Photograph Archive- vintage copies, negatives, slides – as well as his cameras, lenses and over five decades worth of documents on his career. As owners of the majority oevrue, the HNM with this special exhibition is trying to give a taste of the rich fruit of this long career, to honour the master's oevrue and the gestuge he has made in donating his collection. Several hundred colour slides depiciting city life had already been acquired by the Budapest collection at the Szabó Ervin Library. However, Hemzőtown is not some kind of protocol exhibition. The 82-year-old artist selected pictures from his large collection with a fresh eye. Besides some that are already familiar or can now perhaps be considered classics, there are many on the walls that the public will not have seen up to now. „ - by Klára Szarka. -
The same exhibition, or some fairly large segment of it can be seen here in Sárospatak, in the Temple of Muses from 24 February till 1 May 2011.
„Hemző gained a reputation as a sports photographer in the Hungarian press of the 50's. His whole career has been in photojurnalism, despite the fact that he has also taken gastronomic pictures and public knows him best for his excellent food photography. Yet Hemző consideres himself, first and foremost a chronicler of historic events great and small. His oeuvre spans several decades and consists of numerous subjects and styles from sports photography, reports on artistic events and pictures of the city, to his famous pictures of horses. He is a significant figure in the history of Hungarian photography, not just as a creative artist, but also as a picture editor and as an active contributor to Hungarian photography over a long period. „
In this exhibition one can mainly enjoy his black & white pictures of the city, Budapest.
„It is no coincidence that in late 2010 Károly Hemző chose his pictures of the capital as the basis for his latest exhibition entitled HEMZŐTOWN. Even after his 1983 exhibition, his curiosity regarding Budapest and its inhabitants did not cease. He still photographed the everyday events of the city in the new millenium whenever his legs and lungs allowed. His oeuvre of several decades offeres historians much to research, nostalgic feelings for the ordinary man in the street, lessons for the younger generation and a great deal for aesthetes and historians of photography to appriciate. The pictures of seemingly banal and ordinary street scenes, even the deserted sqares and streets, tell complex and human stories, difficult to put into words, yet offering a totality”.
„ The HEMZŐTOWN exhibition is an unusual one. It is a celebration. The occasion behind it is that the photographer, Károly Hemző, has donated several tens of thousands of his photographs to the Hungarian National Museum Historic Photograph Archive- vintage copies, negatives, slides – as well as his cameras, lenses and over five decades worth of documents on his career. As owners of the majority oevrue, the HNM with this special exhibition is trying to give a taste of the rich fruit of this long career, to honour the master's oevrue and the gestuge he has made in donating his collection. Several hundred colour slides depiciting city life had already been acquired by the Budapest collection at the Szabó Ervin Library. However, Hemzőtown is not some kind of protocol exhibition. The 82-year-old artist selected pictures from his large collection with a fresh eye. Besides some that are already familiar or can now perhaps be considered classics, there are many on the walls that the public will not have seen up to now. „ - by Klára Szarka. -
The same exhibition, or some fairly large segment of it can be seen here in Sárospatak, in the Temple of Muses from 24 February till 1 May 2011.
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