An Angle on Hungary

Fülszöveg

Australian photographer Thclma Dul'ton and renowned author Robert Graves have recorded in this volume their experiences of their sojourns in Hungary.
Herein, these visitors from abroad record both in pictures and words the landscapes and visual impressions that have remained as memories. Robert Graves has visited Hungary several times, so in his introduction he pays tribute to his many good friends and acquaintances. His ties to Hungary, however, go back to his childhiiod, for when (jraves was a small boy, Zoltán Kodály taught his father a Hungarian folk song, which the writer remembers to this day.
The photographer says the following about her anthology :
"There is some kind of modest and restrained beauty in the Hungarian landscape for those who have an eye for it; but the secret of the country's enchantment is perhaps not so much on the surface as in the style of life. Thus, the book is expressly subjective, the personal reactions of a foreigner living in Hungary."
Thelma... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Australian photographer Thclma Dul'ton and renowned author Robert Graves have recorded in this volume their experiences of their sojourns in Hungary.
Herein, these visitors from abroad record both in pictures and words the landscapes and visual impressions that have remained as memories. Robert Graves has visited Hungary several times, so in his introduction he pays tribute to his many good friends and acquaintances. His ties to Hungary, however, go back to his childhiiod, for when (jraves was a small boy, Zoltán Kodály taught his father a Hungarian folk song, which the writer remembers to this day.
The photographer says the following about her anthology :
"There is some kind of modest and restrained beauty in the Hungarian landscape for those who have an eye for it; but the secret of the country's enchantment is perhaps not so much on the surface as in the style of life. Thus, the book is expressly subjective, the personal reactions of a foreigner living in Hungary."
Thelma Dufton's subjects are: a lonely farmstead on the Alföld (Great Plain), villages among hills and beside lakes, small towns, markets, workshops, atmospheric rows of houses, and, of course, the people who live and work

in these houses and towns, llie photo-
anthology ends in Budapest. Here con- ^
trasts are emphasized: the old, windy ^
streets and broad avenues; the new ^
Metro and the late 19th-century Opera " House. And everywhere there are
people, the people the photographer •
became so fond of and felt so close ,
I
to during her stay here.
The pictures are accompanied by
lines of poetry from several Hungarian '' poets of the IQth and 20th centuries,
which complement the distinctiveness •
and authenticitv of the various moods J
\
evoked by the pictures. ^
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