Varkonyi deserves to be placed next to his great contemporary photo artists like Aladar Szekely, Denes Ronai or Angelo, Matyas Vince said at the event held at the Hungarian Journalist Association's headquarters in Budapest.
Varkonyi was considered the most sought-after Hungarian portrait photographers for decades after 1935, yet he suffered maltreatment during his life, and, after fleeing Hungary during the 1956 anti-Soviet revolution, much of his work disappeared or fell into oblivion, Vince added.
Now the new album entitled "From Tiszavarkony to Montreal" can do justice to the oeuvre, as the volume brings together images from the vast collection of the news agency's photo archives as well as pictures preserved by the family.
The 180-page album contains 130 images shot mostly between the 1930s and the 1950s and all texts and captions are printed in both Hungarian and English.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: MTI
