Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2008)
ANNUAL REPORT • A 2008. ÉV - PÉTER BAKI: Soul and Body: Kertész to Maplethorpe through the Eyes of the Greatest Masters of Photography
5 IEAN GAUMY, WOMEN TRAINING NORTH LAST OF TEHERAN, IRAN. 1986/2008 the opportunity to become familiar with the aesthetic and technical changes in the history of photography from the late 1800s until the present day. The exhibited works were broken up into six units: some explored the methods of the photographic depiction of the human body (for example The Body Alone) but they mainly addressed the fundamental issues of human existence (for example Alone, Togetherness, In Exile). The selection of the photographic material was based on quality rather than quantity: the museum gathered together the most prominent Hungarian and foreign artists and presented their work to the art-loving public. In excess of two hundred and twenty photographs by forty-seven Hungarian and forty-two foreign artists went on display. The majority of these are the property of the Hungarian Museum of Photography, although works also arrived from the collections of MoMA in New York and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. It is common knowledge in artistic circles that between the two world wars Hungary w r as able to boast of some of the most important artists in the area of photography. The works of
