Dr. Kubassek János: Cholnoky Jenő természetábrázoló művészete (Érd, 2002)
Judit Berta Varga: Jenő Cholnoky as Photographer - Preserving the photographs
Sweden in the summer of 1910 on the occasion of the International Geological Congress, little remained. All the more pictures praising a mature photographer were taken two years later, on the jubilee excursion of the American Geographical Society. He truly met his own expectations of youth about the representation of the landscape through the artistic recording of the Yellowstone National Park, of the Crater Lake in Oregon, of the rocky desert in Arizona, and of the Columbia basalt plateau. He showed the fascination of the landscape omitting redundant details, and from the point of view of a geographer. He did this clearly and obviously; emphasizing what interesting was and suppressing uninteresting elements - serving the dissemination of scientific knowledge. He took the major part of his remaining photographs , ca 1000 pieces of the collection protected in the two public museums organizing the exhibition, naturally at home, in his fatherland . Their topics are mosdy related to the investigation of the Balaton at the beginning of the century through the 1920s and 1930s, and also to the years Cholnoky spent at Kolozsvár as head of department. In the autumn 1919, he was forced to leave Kolozsvár, which fact surely contributed to the developing of deeper appreciation of his photographs. holnoky's photography became true life-work through that exemplary work\fp- ing up - activity, in which he systematized and identified lus photographs according to his memories and notes. He was the first among the teachers of the University in Budapest, who recognized the importance of the precisely defined and identifiable, properly-kept photographs. In his pioneering work - from which the posterity could benefit - helped him one of his orderly student, Jolán Vadas, who later became the aging professor's third wife. After having worked up his own pictures with hard work -, they established a lasting collection out of the photographs carelessly thrown together by Iiis colleagues. Committed to objects of art, we have to take care of the future of the collection, exceeding 10 000 pieces. This is just the number of pictures which survived the vicissitudes of history and human negligence. Cholnoky wrapped in many more, stuck them onto cardboards, and labelled personally. After the monumental work of registration, further increasing the number of photographs O es O PRESERVING THE PHOTOGRAPHS