The first semester of the series features experts on various fields of photography with topics ranging from discussions on past and present Hungarian and foreign photography, historical and institutional opportunities and perspectives, and artistic endeavors and possibilities, the Mai Manó House says of the programme
Colin Ford, founding director of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, now the National Media Museum, in Bradford, UK, will hold a lecture entitled ?Photography ? Hungary?s Greatest Export?? on Monday, January 30 at 6pm.
Colin Ford CBE was the first senior curator of photography in any British national museum or gallery (National Portrait Gallery, London, 1972-82). In 1982, he became the founding Head of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (now the National Media Museum), Bradford. After ten years there, he became Director of the ten National Museums and Galleries of Wales. He has written more than a dozen books on historic photographers ? among them Julia Margaret Cameron, ?Lewis Carroll?, D. O. Hill and Robert Adamson and André Kertész ? and has curated many exhibitions.
