We have the pleasure to invite You to the Hungarian Cultural Institute on the 19th october 2005 at 19h, for the opening of the photo exhibition of Ata Kandó "Borderlines" Fragments about the 20th century... The exhibition is opened by Ad van Denderen Open to the public: 19. October - 21. November 2005. ON THE OPENING, A MEETING OF TWO HUNGARIANS AFTER 50 YEARS: A CONVERSATION WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHER, ATA KANDó (LIVING IN THE NETHERLANDS) AND THE HISTORIAN, FERENC FEJTÕ (LIVING IN FRANCE).
"Borderlines" · Opening speech by Ad van Denderen

Upon the news of the repression of the '56 revolution, Ata Kando, together with her Dutch collegue, Violette Cornelius, rushed from the Netherlands to Vienna and the small villages close to the Austrian-Hungarian border. She knew that the sort of the Hungarian refugees was to be documented and made to remember. By Christmas, the »RED BOOK without title«, the famous album was published. The income from the sales was offered to the arriving children. These photos give the core of the exhibition. However, other periods of the long artistic life of the 92 photographer are also represented. The visitor will recognise some of the well-known and already iconographic masterpieces of the history of European photography.

photo: Róbert Kassay