BOOK LAUNCH /// Judit Gellért: Fotókönyv-beszélgetések
We warmly welcome all interested parties to the Írók Boltja on Wednesday, November 19, at 5 p.m. for the presentation of Judit Gellér's book, Fotókönyv-beszélgetések.
Schedule
Participants in the roundtable discussion at the book launch:
Judit Gellér, author of the book, curator, assistant professor at MOME
József Mélyi, art historian
Mihály Surányi, editor-in-chief of Fotóművészet magazine
Gábor Arion Kudász, head of the MOME Photography Knowledge Center
In addition to a discussion on the recently published photo books by Máté Bartha and Éva Szombat, the volume Fotókönyv-beszélgetések (Photo Book Discussions) also includes interviews with Eszter Bíró, Lajos Csontó, Anna Fabricius, Kata Geibl, Gábor Gerhes, Tibor Gyenis, Gábor Arion Kudász, Péter Puklus, Dezső Szabó, and Dániel Szalai, which appeared in Fotóművészet and Balkon over the past decade.
The volume was edited by Edit Barta and designed by Kiara Schmidt.
The volume was published on the 200th anniversary of the invention of photography and the 41st anniversary of the founding of the Photography Department at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, under the auspices of the MOME Photography Knowledge Center, with the kind permission of the Foundation for Contemporary Art, the publisher of Fotóművészet magazine, and the Ernő Kállai Art Foundation, the publisher of Balkon magazine.
Írok Boltja
More than just a bookstore. Since the end of the last century, Japán, one of Budapest's most famous cafés, has become a popular meeting place for writers and artists. Since the mid-1950s, it has been home to Írók Boltja, whose primary mission is to present and distribute contemporary and classic Hungarian literature in its entirety. In addition, it offers a wide selection of Hungarian and foreign-language books on literature, literary studies, philosophy, social sciences, and the arts, as well as magazines, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. A computer database also helps customers find what they are looking for. Írók Boltja is also well known for its unique visual world and thematic window displays, each presenting a book or cultural event. Evoking the atmosphere and artistic role of the former Japán Kávéház, the store has a cozy tea room where customers can read on site, and which also hosts regular and popular book presentations, literary evenings, and writer-reader meetings.