Sopron

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"Civitas fidelissima" - Sopron is Hungary's most loyal city. It's Gate of Loyalty stands open to one and all and it's Gate of Freedom has bars made of diamonds from which no-one wishes to escape. They symbolise togetherness, interdependance and beauty.
Sopron is a very old city, people have lived in this region for many thousands of years. The city is history personified, its centre a veritable open-air museum.
Times long past hold the secrets of centuries. András Szebeni takes us through the common secrets and points to things moving and unmoving, the source of eternity and history and transforms modern reality into a timeless wonder.
A city is identified by its "places". The visitor first just looks then sees. Pictures prefer the seer not the looker. I don't want to see like a reporter. I am not interested in topicai subjects. Everyday life is much more disturbing. The events such as when the Minister visits Sopron, opens this and that, rewards and buries him or her is not... Tovább

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"Civitas fidelissima" - Sopron is Hungary's most loyal city. It's Gate of Loyalty stands open to one and all and it's Gate of Freedom has bars made of diamonds from which no-one wishes to escape. They symbolise togetherness, interdependance and beauty.
Sopron is a very old city, people have lived in this region for many thousands of years. The city is history personified, its centre a veritable open-air museum.
Times long past hold the secrets of centuries. András Szebeni takes us through the common secrets and points to things moving and unmoving, the source of eternity and history and transforms modern reality into a timeless wonder.
A city is identified by its "places". The visitor first just looks then sees. Pictures prefer the seer not the looker. I don't want to see like a reporter. I am not interested in topicai subjects. Everyday life is much more disturbing. The events such as when the Minister visits Sopron, opens this and that, rewards and buries him or her is not reality. What I am interested in is "path-finding"; the print, the breath of a city or an era: the disappearing eternity.
A fragment from the synopsis of András Szebeni
András Szebeni
Photographer
Born in Budapest in 1946.
Photographer and later chief staff member of
Hungárián Women's Weekly between 1986-89
Editor 1989-90
Director of Vicopress PLC between January and June 1991
Art Director of Playboy in 1991-94
Art Director of Griff and Doktor Úr between 1995-96
1990-95 Vice Secretary General of the Chamber of
Hungárián Photographers, member of the presiden-
tial body of the Hungárián Association of
Photographers.
Awards:
Grand Prize in the Beautiful Hungárián Book competition (1985, 1994), Balogh Rudolf Award (1995).
26 of his photos were selected for the collection of the Metropolitan, New York.
He has published several albums and other volumes.
Literature and Photography are identical twins. They both convey the most condensed information of the world. Photography deconstructs and constructs, literature constructs and deconstructs. Especially when one's gazé is directed, and who could direct it better than those two most sensitive "spiritual crafts"; the winged knights of photography and literature. The virgin eye need to be deflorated. The condition is that both gentlemen should be cross-eyed. Just like El Greco, the brilliant Greek was. The man who can walk about in a known but not overly-known city that can treat commonplaces like a plastic surgeon, who can go from Budapest to Sopron without any pain and by his photos transforms every well-photographed and well-documented building, street and park into a noble silver nitráté painting and a piece of prose-poetry.
Gyula Hernádi
Gyula Hernádi Writer
Born in Oroszvár in 1926
He is the Screen Play writer for the films of Miklós Jancsó More than one hundred volumes of his writings have been published
Art director of Katona József theatre between 1983-85 President of the Union of Independent Writers in 1991 Member of the Hungárián Academy of Art in 1992 Member of the presidential body of the Hungárián Academy of Art in 1996 Awards:
József Attila Award (1976),
Szép Ernő Award, Alternative Kossuth Award (1996)
Kossuth Award (1999) Vissza