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February 17, 2026 - Hungarian / Photographer / Social - Street

László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy was born in 1895 in the small town of Bácsborsód in southern Hungary, the son of a farming family. His father abandoned the family when Moholy-Nagy was young, and he was raised by an uncle in the town of Mohács, whose name he later adopted as part of his own. He studied law […]

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February 17, 2026 - Family of Man / Hungarian / Magnum / Photographer / Social - Street

Robert Capa

Robert Capa was born Endre Friedmann in Budapest in 1913, the son of a Jewish tailor. As a teenager he became involved in left-wing politics, and at seventeen, threatened with arrest by the authoritarian Hungarian government, he fled to Berlin. He enrolled at the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik and found work in a darkroom, beginning […]

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RESOURCES

This is where I keep the research — over 200 studies of the photographers, writers, curators and exhibitions I’ve found most compelling. Each entry offers a summary of their practice together with a few examples of their work, where copyright permits.

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View landmark exhibitions like New Topographics and The Family of Man alongside individual studies of Magnum photographers and many others, like the "Terrible Three", who have shaped the way we see.