{"id":4622,"date":"2016-01-11T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4622"},"modified":"2017-02-20T10:58:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T10:58:01","slug":"a-sandor-szilagyi-on-photography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4622","title":{"rendered":"Sa\u0301ndor Szila\u0301gyi: On Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/?page_id=1134\">Return to VJIC\u00a0 Table of Content\/ <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/vasa-project.com\/index-main.php\">Return to VASA main page<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/?page_id=1134\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<table class=\" alignleft\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 200px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\">\n<h4><strong>Thematic Thread:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>On Photography<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Sa\u0301ndor Szila\u0301gyi<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em><strong>S\u00e1ndor Szil\u00e1gyi<\/strong> is a Hungarian media theorist, writer on photography, living in Budapest, Hungary. His interest range from Hungarian art photography, documentarist photography, and the theoretical questions of photography.<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-left: 60px;\">VASA &#8211; VJIC is inviting you to consider ten (10) essays by Sa\u0301ndor Szila\u0301gyi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/142495124\" width=\"250\" height=\"204\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/138519323\" width=\"250\" height=\"204\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4289\"><strong>Essay #1 Definitions<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let us begin at the beginning: what is photography? Not as a form of art, but photography in general. Photography could be defined as a form of human communication through which a wave motion is fixed as a still picture on a carrier by optical and chemical means. This wave motion is mainly light &#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/141168647\" width=\"250\" height=\"204\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4457\"><strong>Essay #2 Photographic Ways of Seeing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Around the time of the First World War, the <em>Photo-Secession<\/em> with its principles of beauty and idealized aestheticism no longer fit the spirit of the time. Instead, Modernist efforts introduced new ways of seeing into the fine arts &#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/146489557\" width=\"250\" height=\"204\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4541\">Essay #3 The Hungarian Paradox<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hungary is a small country, but a great power in terms of photographers: the names of Kert\u00e9sz, Brassa\u00ef, Moholy-Nagy, Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes, Robert Capa, Stefan Lorant, Martin Munkacsi, Lucien Herv\u00e9 and a good few other Hungarians could not be omitted from a history &#8230;.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/152879695\" width=\"250\" height=\"204\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4640\"><strong>Essay #4 Photomagic<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>G\u00e1bor Kerekes does an extraordinary thing with photography. He does not tell stories or cite dramatic events, nor does he document his own emotions and moods \u2013 he <em>philosophizes<\/em>. He makes ontological and epistemological investigations; he probes the bounds of human cognition.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/159331551\" width=\"250\" height=\"204\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\"><strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4703\">Essay #5\u00a0 Take This Photoshop:<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4703\"> Photographs of Imre Dr\u00e9gely<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>Imre Dr\u00e9gely is perhaps the most playfully spirited, \u201csmart\u201d Hungarian photographer; yet his images are not mere interpretations of form for their own sake. Behind his gags there are very serious issues with which he tries to circumscribe the nature of photography as a medium of communication.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/192175760\" width=\"250\" height=\"204\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\"><strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4628\">Essay #6\u00a0 Mikl\u00f3s Guly\u00e1s<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong>Mikl\u00f3s Guly\u00e1s is by definition a street photographer: he only photographs in the city, loitering in Budapest, whatever catches his eye in public or open spaces. 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