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Contacts<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

May 21\u201327, 2015<\/span><\/h2>\n

The title describes my archives consisting of over 32 000 photos that, encompassing aperiod of 1992 up till now, are presented in a uniform format and in a chronological orderof their taking. The title Contacts<\/em> refers to the form these pictures are presented. I believe that the concept of photo contacts, or contact copy, is little known outside the photographic profession and thus requires explanation. First and foremost, it is a concept of analogue photography, in a world that has settled for digital images. Consequently, the definition is this: a contact copy is a positive copy. When making it, the light-sensitive photo paper isin direct contact with the negative, i.e. the contact copy is the same size as the negative. The 32 000 contacts thus exhibited were made on a 35 mm film (Leica). This means 24 \u00d736 mm pictures, resulting in 36\u201338 pictures by roll\/page. These pages are arranged in 100-page volumes, so altogether they make up 9 sizable, numbered albums. A number of things follow from this method. The film roll preserves every exposition, mistake oraccident. If there was any erasing, the absence would also be visible. (The relationship between the analogue and digital pictures leads to important theoretical questions.) In this case it is only this feature that matters, i.e. the methodology and process that can be tracked down and seen in the contacts, which allow detecting an artist\u2019s method ofwork. This way we can glimpse into experiments mistakes and variations of form, which precede the known results. Accidents and eventualities, life itself, cannot be excluded. These 32 000 photos comprise history, the history of 23 years as well.<\/p>\n

The material \u2013 comprising studies and private, experimental pictures, as well as those meant for the public \u2013 rendered side by side, can be read as a unique story, involving figures of contemporary art life, tourist photos, and those of known and not known projects that have never been realised, etc. Like a film beginning in the distant past, in 1992, starts in black and white, then turns to colour in the turn of 1996-1997 and continues so till today. Sticking to analogue pictures may be interpreted as anachronism. Although it isphotography, I am an artist, I approach photography from the perspective of medium theory. I examine the operating mechanism of photographic images. It is mainly for theoretical reasons that I choose analogue technology. Over the years I have conducted several long-term projects that necessitated such uniformity and steadiness(e.g. the Fony\u00f3d<\/em> project<\/em> from 1996 to 2014). Many of these, however, remained unrealised because of the lack of support and financial background. All this can be seen in thisarchive. To sum it up, this material can be interpreted as an archive, a sketchbook or a diary. Although it mainly applies the logic of fine art, it can still connect to the discourse on archives. (Dezs\u0151 Szab\u00f3)<\/p>\n

Exhibiting artist: Dezs\u0151 Szab\u00f3<\/span><\/p>\n

Venue: PH21 Gal\u00e9ria (<\/span>1092 Budapest, R\u00e1day utca 55.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo: Bogl\u00e1rka Zellei \u00a9 OFF-Biennale Budapest archive<\/p><\/div>\n

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Photo: Bogl\u00e1rka Zellei \u00a9 OFF-Biennale Budapest archive<\/p><\/div>\n

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Photo: Bogl\u00e1rka Zellei \u00a9 OFF-Biennale Budapest archive<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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