Examines how these photojournalists, all of whom left their native country to work in Europe and America, established Hungary as a crucible of photography and explores the influence of their vision and orginality on other photographers.

Accompagne une exposition au musée de la Vie romantique à Paris (juillet-octobre 2001). Sont rassemblées une centaine d'images réalisées par des photographes hongrois entre 1880 et 1930. Elles sont complétées par la description du contexte culturel, une étude sur l'histoire de ce domaine artistique, le commentaire de chacune des images et la biographie de chacun des artistes.

Enjoy the beautiful curated photographs (in color) of Budapest in Hungary This full page picture book will make a great home coffee table decor accessory or as a gift for a loved one The photos captures the quintessential stunning landmarks, scenery and architectural buildings of the country and city from day to night without no words (texts) 8.5" x 11" / large size Glossy softcover

This book documents the physical aspects of the lives of Hungarian Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the way they looked, the kind of neighborhoods and apartments they lived in, and the places where they worked. The many historical photographs—there is at least one picture per page—and related text offers a virtual cross section of Hungarian society, a diverse group of the poor, the middle-class, and the wealthy. Regardless of whether they lived integrated within the majority society or in separate communities, whether they were assimilated Jews or Hasidim, they were an important and integral part of the nation. We have surprisingly few detailed accounts of their lifestyles—the world knows more about the circumstances of their deaths than about the way they lived. Much like piecing together an ancient sculpture from tiny shards found in an excavation, Koerner tries to reconstruct the many diverse lifestyles using fragmentary information and surviving photos.

The Restless Hungarian is the saga of an extraordinary life set against the history of the rise of modernism, the Jewish Diaspora, and the Cold War. A Hungarian Jew whose inquiring spirit helped him to escape the Holocaust, Paul Weidlinger became one of the most creative structural engineers of the twentieth century. As a young architect, he broke ranks with the great modernists with his radical idea of the “Joy of Space.” As an engineer, he created the strength behind the beauty in mid-century modern skyscrapers, churches, museums, and he gave concrete form to the eccentric monumental sculptures of Pablo Picasso, Isamu Noguchi, and Jean Dubuffet. In his private life, he was a divided man, living behind a wall of denial as he lost his family to war, mental illness, and suicide. In telling his father’s story, the author sifts meaning from the inspiring and contradictory narratives of a life: a motherless child and a captain of industry, a clandestine communist who designed silos for the world’s deadliest weapons during the Cold War, a Jewish refugee who denied he was a Jew, a husband who was terrified of his wife’s madness, and a man whose personal saints were artists.