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Történettudomány - Berta Ferenc: A fotómontázsról – néhány szolnoki képeslap ürügyén

BERTA FERENC A FOTÓMONTÁZSRÓL - NÉHÁNY SZOLNOKI KÉPESLAP ÜRÜGYÉN

__________(PANKA ISTVÁN FOTÓMŰVÉSZ EMLÉKÉNEK AJÁNLVA)__________

8-10. Danka István kompozíciói szolnoki városképi témákra (Forrás: DJM virtuális fényképtár, Danka István ajándéka)

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Ferenc Berta

On photo montage - on the pretext of a few Szolnok picture postcards (Dedicated to the memory of photographer István Danka)

Montage is nearly as old as photography itself: the creation of the first one was announced in 1851 the photography journal La Lumiére in Paris. The first outstanding representatives were the English who considered photography to be a branch of fine art and not merely mechanic procedure through the lenses of the camera. According to our present knowledge, an unknown photographer in the 1880 was the first one to experiment with montage, and in Szolnok it was György Tar, a 4-grader secondary school student, who first exhibited photomontages in Verseghy Library in

1967. It is interesting to note that the first mass produced photos among Hungarian rural population were montages: military discharging letters hanging on the walls of ben rooms with the photog portrait of the exsoldier family member glued on them.

Montage was a popular technique with Dadaist artists (first of all Raoult Hausman) in the 1910’s, who basically adopted montage in the arsenal of fine arts and at the same time created the basic system of its aesthetic requirements and theory.

At the beginning of the 20th century employing the positive montage technique on picture postcards was very fashionable. There are several postcards of Szolnok where the trick of the photographer can be observed; sometimes they used visual elements that were photographed at different locations (clouds, people, means of transport) placed over the Szolnok scenery and thus improving the composition of the picture or just for fun as a way of playful phantasy as illustrated in the case of postcards called Szolnok in the future.

At the beginning of the 21st century in the age new possibilities in the advance of digital technology, István Danka evoked the technique of montage by placing pictures of Szolnok streets against backgrounds of mountainous regions.

Translated by Dezső Darabont

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