Gyula Zaránd‘s exhibition, Budapest-Paris, 1963-2001 will run until December 2 at the Galerie Olivier Waltman.
The gallery represents the estate of Hungarian photographer Gyula Zaránd (1943-2020). Budapest-Paris, 1963-2001 is the first exhibition presented in a gallery with a selection of period prints never before shown in France.
Gyula Zaránd started taking photography at the age of 15, following in the footsteps of her grandfather and her two parents, all photographers. He graduated from the Budapest School of Photography in 1963 where he studied with Demeter Balla and then continued his training at the Higher School of Journalism. He began as a reporter for Tükör magazine, whose director chose him to accompany Henri Cartier-Bresson during his ten-day trip to Budapest in 1966.
The young journalist began by photographing everyday life in his hometown and then became interested in the political and social unrest that swept through Hungary after 1956. Gyula Zaránd was often censored and some of his images considered as subversive – street children, military parades, beggars – were never published in his country at the time. The artist then left Hungary in 1971 to come to Paris where he became passionate about the originality of the city, the singularity of the neighborhoods, monuments and inhabitants. The young Hungarian met Henri Cartier-Bresson there who encouraged him with his advice and introduced him to the community of Parisian photographers. The name of Gyula Zaránd then completes the list of Hungarian photographers who came to pursue a career in Paris: Brassaï, Kertész, Capa…
Much more than a photographer, Gyula Zaránd was a humanist reporter. He will maintain this desire to approach and document the daily lives of simple people with a strong social and political perspective throughout his life. The Budapest-Paris, 1963-2001 exhibition offers the opportunity to rediscover an important artist, witness of his time, great lover of France and whose photographs are both witnesses and tools of a collective European memory.
Gyula Zaránd was born in 1943 in Budapest.
In 1987, a large series of his photographs (1958-1971) was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, Paris.
The artist died in Puteaux in 2020, at the age of 76.
Gyula Zaránd : Budapest-Paris, 1963-2001
Until December 2, 2023
Galerie Olivier Waltman
16, rue du Perche
Paris 3ème
www.galeriewaltman.com
