Budapest, 1957.

Three boys looking at a movie poster outside a cinema.

[Some context to this photo. The film being advertised here is 'Nehéz kesztyűk’ or 'Heavy Gloves' and is about a well-known boxer who is defeated in an international bout but through hard work and diligence returns to claim victory and redeem himself. It featured real-life boxer and legend, László Papp, who had won three Olympic gold medals for Hungary (1948, 1952, and 1956). The film was released shortly after the 1956 Revolution and was designed to foster national pride and a sense of unity. Using a real-life hero in Papp made this film very popular, especially, you imagine, among boys of a certain age shown in the photo.]

Source: Fortepan [191944] / Géza Kriss

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Budapest, 1955. Game boys. Not sure what they are playing but I am guessing it is some form of marbles.

Source: Fortepan [191889] / Géza Kriss

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Hungary, 1964.

Writing a postcard. A lost art these days.

Source: Fortepan [148142] / Demeter Balla / Donated by Zsolt Hegyi, legal heir

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Hungary, 1965

Not too sure what the school play here is. Maybe Snow White and the Seven Dwarves? Or perhaps Aladdin and His Magic Lamp? Anyway, I hope Lenin approved of the performance.

Source: Fortepan [148158] / Demeter Balla / Donated by Zsolt Hegyi, legal heir

( I am featuring photos of Hungarian photographer Demeter Balla (1931-2017) over the next little while.)

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Budapest, 1964

The waiter. The photo was taken in Budapest's famed New York Café, once the home of writers and poets. The interior is magnificent and one of the finest examples of Austro-Hungarian pomp and grandeur. Nowadays only tourists go, having to queue to get in, and be able to order overpriced coffee (a cappuccino will set you back $NZ27) from surly wait staff.

Source: Fortepan [148173] / Demeter Balla / Donated by Zsolt Hegyi, legal heir

( I am featuring photos of Hungarian photographer Demeter Balla (1931-2017) over the next little while.)

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Budapest, 1958

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." - Henry David Thoreau

This photo was taken in District XXIII, Budapest’s southernmost district, on a branch of the Danube.

Source: Fortepan [148162] / Demeter Balla / Donated by Zsolt Hegyi, legal heir

( I am featuring photos of Hungarian photographer Demeter Balla (1931-2017) over the next little while.)

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Budapest, 1968

I see you, Mr Photographer!

Source: Fortepan [148162] / Demeter Balla / Donated by Zsolt Hegyi, legal heir

( I am featuring photos of Hungarian photographer Demeter Balla (1931-2017) over the next little while.)

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Hungary, 1967

Unlike many of the photographers whose images are in the Fortepan archive, Demeter Balla (1931-2017) was a professional and much honoured photographer and writer. His works cover many topics including still life, nudes photojournalism, portraits and landscapes and he received Hungary's highest honour, the Kossuth Prize.

Sunday morning maybe?

Source: Fortepan [148114] / Demeter Balla / Donated by Zsolt Hegyi, legal heir

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Russia/Soviet Union, 1942

The Fortepan archive has a lot of photos from WWI and WWII but I rarely consider posting those because they are usually pretty grim. But this portrait of group of women and girls taken after the Nazi invasion of Russia, struck me as a great photo, full of humanity. The smiles on these women and girls belie the great suffering that must have lain ahead for them.

Source: Fortepan [140713] / Lajos Miklós

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Budapest, 1963

Watching the world go by.

Source: Fortepan [140364] / Tamás Németh

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