Free admission on World Photography Day at Mai Manó House
To mark the anniversary, the Hungarian House of Photography – Mai Manó House is making the closing day of its exhibition Like You and Me - Young Hungarian Photography free of charge.
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19th August marks the birth of photography around the world, 184 years ago on this day one of the first photographic processes, the daguerreotype, was introduced to the world to use this revolutionary new technology to make pictures.
Hungarian House of Photography - Mai Manó House
Mai Manó House – The Hungarian House of Photographers – operates in a studio-house built at the end of 19th century, for the commission of Mai Manó (1855-1917), Imperial and Royal Court Photographer. This special, eight-story neo-renaissance monument is unique in world architecture: we have no knowledge of any other intact turn-of-the-century studiohouse. In addition, it serves its original goal, the case of photography again.
The aim of Mai Manó House is to advance the development of Hungarian photography and raise photography’s national prestige as a distinct form of art.
The institution plays a marked role in the cultural life of Budapest and Hungary, while the organization of exhibitions and programs abroad is getting more and more emphasis within its activities. The reputation of justly world-famous Hungarian photographers of the 20th century offers a great opportunity to regain our old status in the world of photography by the introduction of the generations following those great masters
