Fortepan Masters
Collective photography from the 20th century
Selected by Szabolcs Barakonyi
Concept creator and art director: Szabolcs Barakonyi
Creative concept of book design: Zalán Péter Salát
Picture editors: Szabolcs Barakonyi, Zalán Péter Salát
Editor: Róza Tekla Szilágyi
Copy editor: Árpád Szendrői
English translation: Bob Dent, Katalin Rácz
Publisher: Bazin Investments Ltd.
Managing director: György Simó
200 copies published in English in 2021.
Authors of the texts published in this volume:
Szabolcs Barakonyi, Ildikó Enyedi, Tamás Fábián, Eszter Kiss,
Ádám Kolozsi, György Simó
Source of photographs: Fortepan.
Retouching and preparation for printing: Sándor Rácz
Technical editor: Salát Zalán Péter
Fonts: Stanley Regular, R. Italic, Bold, B. Italic – Optimo Type Foundry
Gräbenbach Regular – Camelot Typefaces
Paper: Munken Pure Rough, Munken Lynx Rough,
Munken Polar Rough, Munken Kristall Rough 150 g – Arctic Paper S. A.
Takeo Tant Select TS-6 N-9 – 116 g – TAKEO Co., Ltd.
Cover: Favini Sumo Black – 3 mm,
Favini Refit – 360 g– Favini Srl
Printed by: EPC Nyomda, Budaörs
Manager: László Mészáros
Printing coordination: Tamás Szalai, Attila Szigeti, Sándor Végh
Machine operators: Péter Pozsga, Csaba Pető, András Salamon
Binding: Stanctechnik Kötészeti Ltd.
Manager: Katalin Joóné Vass
Binding coordination: István Berneczei
Size: 160 x 230 mm
Produced on 115 printers’ sheets, 690 pages, in 800 copies,
offset printing, with FM screening and CMYK black
and Pantone Cool Grey 8U colours.
All rights reserved
No part of this publication may be reproduced or stored in
a data-recording system, in any form or by any means, electronic
or mechanical including photocopying, without the prior
written permission of the publisher.
ISBN: 978-615-01-1518-4
Budapest, 2021
The publisher and editors of Fortepan Masters
express their gratitude
to the Béla Horváth Art Foundation,
Norbert Streitmann,
Tamás Szalai,
Zoltán Varga,
Ferenc Karvalits,
and KPMG Hungary
for their generous support enabling
this book to be published.
Responsible for the content of the website: Szilágyi Róza Tekla
The photos of the book were taken by Csaba Villányi and Szabolcs Barakonyi.
The source of the private photographs used on the site is Fortepan.
Developer: Csaba Bozzay @airb