Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center
Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center
Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center
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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
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11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
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Traveltheorient
San Antonio, TX596 contributions
Nov 2022
As it has been mentioned by others, the main gallery is not open. I went to the place in November and it was still not reopened. There are NO signs what-so-ever about the expected reopening. There is a small room adjacent to a coffee shop and that has a few Capa photos but otherwise, that is it!
Written November 12, 2022
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silangel1
Budapest, Hungary4,182 contributions
Apr 2023 • Friends
Nice area in downtown, visit many times a year depend what exhibitions they have. Parking is very hard at this area. Sometimes not easy to open the big gate to enter the building.
Written April 21, 2023
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Jerome Bucks
Aywaille, Belgium3 contributions
Mar 2024 • Couples
Superb museum retracing the life of photographer Robert CAPA. Beyond the artist's famous war photographs, we were able to discover other facets of his profession as a photographer. The exhibition is enhanced with short period films, soundtracks and objects of all kinds. Democratic price and helpful staff! Not to be missed under any circumstances if the history of photography speaks to you.
Written March 10, 2024
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Laura PeGr
Eindhoven, The Netherlands1,620 contributions
Dec 2019
If you like photos, this museum is recommended. Many photos on display, few descriptions, but when there is a photo well done, that's enough.
Written November 30, 2020
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Biddy J
Budapest, Hungary31 contributions
Mar 2019 • Couples
Found out about this exhibition centre by accident. What a find! Actually several exhibitions there, not just Capa. Capa very well presented and clear chronological order but also an exhibition of photographs taken by children in care mentored by professional photographers. Heartbreaking.
Bonus for oldies, free entrance if yo are over 70. (Many Budapest museums offer this, just show photo ID, also all public transport)
Bonus for oldies, free entrance if yo are over 70. (Many Budapest museums offer this, just show photo ID, also all public transport)
Written March 13, 2019
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SirRahikkala
Helsinki, Finland409 contributions
Jul 2014 • Couples
I accidentally found this place. I felt like winning in lottery due I have been photographing semi-professionally for years and every respectable photographer knows who Robert Capa was. But that was not all. When I visited the place, there was Magnum Contakt Sheets exhibition! Magnum is independent photography agency which members are world famous artists, photojournalists and photographers. It was amazing to see original negatives, photos and works which we have seen in magazines and other publications since 50's to present day.
If you like photography, you must visit this place. Robert Capa and some Magnum exhibition was on my bucket list and I found this by accident while on vacation. I cried.
If you like photography, you must visit this place. Robert Capa and some Magnum exhibition was on my bucket list and I found this by accident while on vacation. I cried.
Written July 14, 2014
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piernasdeflamingo
Lille, France79 contributions
Mar 2020 • Couples
Nice expositions, freindly staff!
Capa's work is pretty interesting plus the two temporary expositions are extremely interesting! Worth a visit :) @
Capa's work is pretty interesting plus the two temporary expositions are extremely interesting! Worth a visit :) @
Written March 11, 2020
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Ingo S
Karlsruhe, Germany188 contributions
Nov 2019
The museum is very small - only seven or eight rooms - but it is worth visiting repeatedly every year because they regularly change all their exhibitions. Only the two rooms about Robert Capa are on permanent display. Capa created timeless classics - probably no need to say more about him. But i found the temporary exhibitions even more impressive. They typically present the oeuvres of one or two Hungarian photographers from specific epoques of photography - this time it was Géza Perneczky's (*1936) conceptual photography and Katalin Nádor (1938-2018), who worked as a museum photographer in Pécs and devolped a strikingly original style of experimental and lyrical artistic photography in parallel, playing with light, surfaces, multiple exposure and other creative techniques. The exhibition catalogue says, quite to the point: "Her secret artistic life reflected the life of creative women working in rural Hungary during the years of Socialism: her work as an artist evolved quietly, without any attention or acknowledgment from the professional scene, in spite of her peculiar, sensual experimentations, and the unique subjective abstraction characteristic of her photographs."
Yet the best part of the museum - at least this year, and at least according to my taste - was the presentation of the two winners of the Capa Grand Prize 2019: Antal Bánhegyesy's photos of orthodox churches and christian life in Romania, almost every photo stunning in a different way: some just magnificient, some exhibiting incredible contrast in architecture or other motives, some wonderfully ironic. And then András D. Hajdú's photo series "Szofi’s Life", following the life of young Hungarian Gypsy girl and her family from her mother's pregnancy to kindergarden age (to be continued), presented in an unconventional style that well matches the subject.
This is more than just a museum, it is probably even more important for fostering and promoting modern Hungarian photography through the Grand Prize.
Yet the best part of the museum - at least this year, and at least according to my taste - was the presentation of the two winners of the Capa Grand Prize 2019: Antal Bánhegyesy's photos of orthodox churches and christian life in Romania, almost every photo stunning in a different way: some just magnificient, some exhibiting incredible contrast in architecture or other motives, some wonderfully ironic. And then András D. Hajdú's photo series "Szofi’s Life", following the life of young Hungarian Gypsy girl and her family from her mother's pregnancy to kindergarden age (to be continued), presented in an unconventional style that well matches the subject.
This is more than just a museum, it is probably even more important for fostering and promoting modern Hungarian photography through the Grand Prize.
Written November 13, 2019
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Robert E
London, UK376 contributions
May 2018 • Solo
Robert Capa's stunning wartime photographs are familiar to everyone, not just photographers. They are well represented here but there is much more.
On this visit there was The Photojournalist Press Photography exhibition which told more about modern Hungary than any number of tourist guide books, much of it somewhat depressing. Next door was a Danube Perspectives exhibition. Several photographers visions of the river, its surroundings and its people as it makes its way through eastern Europe. Huge reproductions in a darkened room and quite stunning.
Both of the these were temporary exhibitions and it is to be hoped that future ones come up to the same standard.
On this visit there was The Photojournalist Press Photography exhibition which told more about modern Hungary than any number of tourist guide books, much of it somewhat depressing. Next door was a Danube Perspectives exhibition. Several photographers visions of the river, its surroundings and its people as it makes its way through eastern Europe. Huge reproductions in a darkened room and quite stunning.
Both of the these were temporary exhibitions and it is to be hoped that future ones come up to the same standard.
Written June 7, 2018
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Martti974
Reunion Island78 contributions
Oct 2016 • Solo
Robert Capa was the top war photographer for Magnum remembered for the shots he took risking his own life. Well there is nothing about him in this museum.
There were contemporary Hungarian photographers' works. Why they had been chosen was not evident to me. Downstairs thee wa an exhibition of interactive cosntructions. Some of them worked.
My impression was that nobody really cared about this museum. Its potential was totally untapped.
There were contemporary Hungarian photographers' works. Why they had been chosen was not evident to me. Downstairs thee wa an exhibition of interactive cosntructions. Some of them worked.
My impression was that nobody really cared about this museum. Its potential was totally untapped.
Written January 4, 2017
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