HU OSA 440 Éva Kapitány Photo Collection
Fonds DescriptionContext
Hierarchy
Statistics
Identity Statement
Title
Éva Kapitány Photo Collection
Identity Statement
Date(s)
1987 - 2005 (predominant 1989)
Identity Statement
Description Level
Fonds
Identity Statement
Extent and medium (processed)
280 Film roll (35mm), 8.4 linear meters
Context
Name of creator(s)
Éva Kapitány
Content and structure
Scope and content (abstract)
Black and white photographs documenting the years of transition from a one-party dictatorship into a multi-party democracy in Hungary, captured by a non-professional photographer, yet a true documentarian, Éva Kapitány.
Content and structure
Scope and content (narrative)
Éva Kapitány started her photography career in the mid-1980s as an ardent documenter of demonstrations, protests to show what never appeared in or contradicted the official press. After the regime change, she photographed Budapest, as a changing city: the removal of Communist memorials and statues. Later she became an instructor at John Wesley Theological College, Budapest, where, as part of the social worker curriculum, she taught students photo documentation as tool to develop personalized care.
Content and structure
Accruals
Expected
Content and structure
System of arrangement
The first 280 rolls of 35 mm photo negatives were borrowed to the Open Society Archives (OSA) in year 2019-2022. OSA has scanned the images into TIF archival master files.The TIF files were downsized into JPG viewing copies. The images were not retouched during these processes, nor cropped or edited in any other ways.
Conditions of access and use
Conditions governing access
Not Restricted
Conditions of access and use
Conditions governing reproduction
Third party rights are to be cleared.
HU OSA 440 Éva Kapitány Photo Collection
Fonds DescriptionContext
Hierarchy
Statistics
Identity Statement
Title
Éva Kapitány Photo Collection
Identity Statement
Date(s)
1987 - 2005 (predominant 1989)
Identity Statement
Description Level
Fonds
Identity Statement
Extent and medium (processed)
280 Film roll (35mm), 8.4 linear meters
Context
Name of creator(s)
Éva Kapitány
Content and structure
Scope and content (abstract)
Black and white photographs documenting the years of transition from a one-party dictatorship into a multi-party democracy in Hungary, captured by a non-professional photographer, yet a true documentarian, Éva Kapitány.
Content and structure
Scope and content (narrative)
Éva Kapitány started her photography career in the mid-1980s as an ardent documenter of demonstrations, protests to show what never appeared in or contradicted the official press. After the regime change, she photographed Budapest, as a changing city: the removal of Communist memorials and statues. Later she became an instructor at John Wesley Theological College, Budapest, where, as part of the social worker curriculum, she taught students photo documentation as tool to develop personalized care.
Content and structure
Accruals
Expected
Content and structure
System of arrangement
The first 280 rolls of 35 mm photo negatives were borrowed to the Open Society Archives (OSA) in year 2019-2022. OSA has scanned the images into TIF archival master files.The TIF files were downsized into JPG viewing copies. The images were not retouched during these processes, nor cropped or edited in any other ways.
Conditions of access and use
Conditions governing access
Not Restricted
Conditions of access and use
Conditions governing reproduction
Third party rights are to be cleared.