{"id":959,"date":"2023-11-08T08:43:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T08:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everydayphotography.org\/journal\/?p=959"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T09:12:15","slug":"interview-with-visual-anthropologist-critic-andras-ban-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everydayphotography.org\/journal\/interview-with-visual-anthropologist-critic-andras-ban-video","title":{"rendered":"Interview with visual anthropologist &#038; critic Andr\u00e1s B\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Hungarian Interview Series (with English subtitles)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">by <a href=\"https:\/\/everydayphotography.org\/journal\/by-roza-tekla-szilagyi\">R\u00f3za Tekla Szil\u00e1gyi<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/everydayphotography.org\/journal\/by-endre-cserna\">Endre Cserna<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interview with visual anthropologist &amp; critic Andr\u00e1s B\u00e1n \/\/ Hungarian Interview Series\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xqK_iX3Fw1M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andr\u00e1s B\u00e1n (1951), visual anthropologist, teacher, art critic, has been publishing reviews and essays specifically on fine-art photography and contemporary art since 1973. He became interested in visual anthropology studies during a trip to the United States in the late 1980s; from 1993, he taught visual anthropology at the Department of Cultural and Visual Anthropology, University of Miskolc, where later he was associate professor. As co-founder of the Private Photo and Film Archives\u2019s research group, launched within the Institute for Culture (M\u0171vel\u0151d\u00e9skutat\u00f3 Int\u00e9zet), he played a significant role in the collection and systematic scientific processing of amateur photography and film in Hungary. In 2007, he initiated the foundation of the Hungarian Society for the History of Photography, and between 2014 and 2018, he worked as Chief Curator at the Kunsthalle Budapest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A more extensive written version of the interview will soon be accessible on Eidolon Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interview: R\u00f3za Tekla Szil\u00e1gyi, Endre Cserna <br>Video: D\u00e1vid Bir\u00f3 <br>Music: \u00c1ron L\u00f6rinczi <br>Design: L2 Studio <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the photographs displayed in the video were generously donated by Andr\u00e1s B\u00e1n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian Interview Series (with English subtitles) by R\u00f3za Tekla Szil\u00e1gyi &amp; Endre Cserna Andr\u00e1s B\u00e1n (1951), visual anthropologist, teacher, art critic, has been publishing reviews and essays specifically on fine-art photography and contemporary art since 1973. 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