Little known outside of his native Hungary, the body of work Szász created from the late 1950s through the 1970s, epitomizes the artistic vision and innovation of photographers active in Hungary during the years of communism. Featuring boldly graphic abstractions primarily drawn from Hungarian life and landscape, Szász’s images communicate through a universal vernacular. Working in the tradition of Hungarian greats such as André Kertész and László Moholy-Nagy, János Szász’s images are notable for their experimentation with radical perspectives, formalist compositions, and stark, black and white contrast printing. Szász’s photographs transform ordinary scenes from his hometown of Pécs — snow-covered vineyards, stacked firewood, and rows of seating in a darkened movie theater—into bold and graphic compositions. By manipulating darkroom exposure and processing techniques, Szász often reduced his subjects to pattern. He utilized a darkroom process for high-contrast printing, which involved chemical over-processing, then painstakingly bleaching over toned areas with a paintbrush or sponge, to arrive at his dynamically graphic images.

Photographs: Szász János Texts:  Kincses Károly Graphic design:  Bodó Márton Translation:  Szász Balázs Publisher: Szolga Hajnal Year: 2012 Paperback, 128 pages Language: English, Hungarian Dimensions: 27 x 21 cm ISBN: 978-963-08-2959-5

Zmago Jeraj 's series of photographs on the theme of Carnival spans thirty years. The first photographs were taken by chance, merely for the artist's personal archive, with no intention of exhibiting them. Moreover, the initially opportune subject matter was not considered potentially valuable for sustained creative interest. Over time, however, the number of images of figures and scenes associated with Carnival grew and developed into a series. The majority of the shots were taken in the Slovenian town of Ptuj, known for its carnival parade and for the unique carnival figure of "kurent" and its companions. After 1984, when a carnival festival was also organized in Maribor, Jeraj began documenting events in both cities. He focused on masked figures appearing alone or isolated in a crowd of ordinarily dressed people, or on small groups of costumed figures accompanied by random companions. He was interested in homemade costumes, which were often clumsily fashioned and gave a clear indication of the person's ingenuity, skill, and finances. Although Jeraj creates his visual reality with his choice of the event and the moment of freezing it in time, his series of photographs is not without traits of reportage photography and its verism. The outskirts of the center of Ptuj with derelict industrial buildings provide a suitable setting for these images. The emphasis on the banality of the setting robs the carnival figures of their power and creates the semantic concept that prevails throughout the series Carnival Figures and aims to degrade the spectacularity of the figures in various ways. It is thus expressed only with vague allusions to the marginal significance of the costume in relation to the prosaic whole, underlining the futility of the figure's presence. Author: Zmago Jeraj Text: Milojka Kline Publisher: Umetnostna galerija Maribor Year: 1996 Hard cover, 78 pages Print run: 500 Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 30 x 21 cm      

The photographer - chronicler of the beginning of the century Katalog je spremljal razstavo v Slovenskem etnografskem muzeju leta  2015, ki je predstavlila vpogled v življenje in delo enega izmed najpomembnejših amaterskih fotografov z začetka 20. stoletja – Frana Vesela. S fotografijo se ukvarjal celo življenje in ustvaril motivno bogat in raznolik opus fotografij, ki so danes vključene v zbirke večih ustanov. Izbor predstavljenih avtorjevih originalnih fotografij, je na razstavi ponujdil vpogled v dela njegove ohranjene fotografske zapuščine, katere rdeča nit je mesto Ljubljana in njeni prebivalci. Author of photographs: Fran Vesel Texts: Lara Štrumelj, Marijan Rupert Publisher: MGL Year: 1999 paperback, 55 pages Print run: 600 Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 22 x 27 cm ISBN: 961- 206-021-5