museums
by Kelly Midori McCormick This essay by historian Kelly Midori McCormick is the result of her research supported by the inaugural Eidolon Grant, awarded in 2024. Drawing on newly discovered archival materials, McCormick illuminates …
In this Hungarian-language (but efficiently English subtitled!) lecture, visual artist Viola Fátyol presents the overlooked and yet unsung photographic legacy of Mariska Travnik, whose intimate images of rural life of the 1910s offer a …
by Róza Tekla Szilágyi & Endre Cserna An interview with Kata Martincsák, project leader of Jelenarchívum—the Hungarian Museum of Ethnography’s new initiative: a community photo and story collection dedicated to preserving Hungarian family and …
A crash course on the origins and importance of the snapshot aesthetic by Urbantsok Tímea The snapshot aesthetic – an imperfect, uncomposed, and spontaneous visual language in photography, typically associated with amateur imagemakers – …
by Dorottya Balkó Although amateur or family photographs weren’t created with the intention of being institutionally collected, researched, and displayed, these visual materials have still become an important topic in contemporary visual culture. The …
Interview with The Family Museum by Róza Tekla Szilágyi Co-founded in 2017 by Nigel Martin Shephard and Rachael Moloney, The Family Museum is an archival project rooted in Nigel’s collection of original British amateur …
