Vincent Baumgartner:
BUILDINGS TELL TALES -
Budapest's Hidden Treasures /
Les trésors cachés de Budapest /
Budapest rejtett kincsei
Hardcover 25.5 x 29.8 cm, 1.4 kg, 232 pages
15.990 Ft (40 EUR)
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Budapest is a city of grand landmarks – but it has a secret treasury behind the façades. By exploring its staircases, courtyards, and passageways, we gain a more layered and tactile sense of the city. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Budapest was one of the world’s most dynamically developing metropolises. During this period, thousands of elegant residential buildings were constructed, many of which still stand today. Through more than 2,000 visits, Vincent Baumgartner's project Buildings Tell Tales aims to photograph these sites with precision and care. This curated photo book brings together the most evocative perspectives Vincent encountered, taking you on a journey into a lesser-seen Budapest. Vincent not only captures the common spaces but also focuses on the overlooked details that make history tangible: the remnants of craftsmanship, worn steps, cracked plaster, faded wall paintings. This is not about documenting ruins, but about preserving lived-in spaces where traces of the past remain embedded in the architecture. Let yourself be drawn in by the details. The imprints of those who came before – every worn surface has something to say. Buildings Tell Tales.
(The photo album is accompanied by a preface in three languages: English, French, and Hungarian.)
Beliczai Bea (ed.):
TABÁN – fényképek, történetek
Hardcover, 21 x 27.5 cm, 2 kg, 336 pages
15.990 Ft (19.990 Ft)
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Tabán - photographs, stories takes the reader on a journey to Tabán, a district known as the Montmartre of Budapest due to its winding, steep streets and many taverns that made it a favourite spot for artists. Despite the Budapest Council's decision to demolish Tabán in the early 1900s, it stood for longer than anticipated, creating a special atmosphere with its inevitable mortality which was captured by many writers and photographers until its eventual destruction in the 1930s.
This album reveals a unique photo heritage that has never been researched or published before and showcases this fascinating area through the pairing of nearly 150 photos and writings. The carefully selected images provide a historical review of how photographers captured this decaying world, from the young Andre Kertesz who asked his brother to pose motionless for more than ten minutes for a night shot, to Zoltán Seidner, one of the representatives of "Neue Sachlichkeit" in architecture photography. To enrich the collective memory, the selection contains the works of private and unknown photographers also. It’s not only a representative photo album that tells the story of a mysterious place, but also serves as a photohistorical source publication. While the text and photo pairings create new dialogues and provide more layers of interpretation.
It makes the reader truly feel and understand the magical realism of this place and also plays a role in reminding of the beauty and importance of preserving our cultural heritage. (The book is in Hungarian)
