Klára LANGER

Hungarian photographer

[ BUDAPEST 1912 – BUDAPEST 1973 ]

Domain :

ARTS

Geographical area :

EUROPE

Hongrie

Author : Klára TŐRY

Under the direction of : Ilona KOVACS

After studying painting and commercial art, Klára Langer graduated in photography studies in 1937. She turned to social photography in the 1930s and joined the Socialist Artists group. She travelled through Hungary, Transylvania, and several European countries to capture images of misery and despair, thus producing some of her best works. She arranged them – a radically new...

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Bibliography

Gyermekek/Children/Enfants/Niños, Budapest, Pannónia, 1963.

Oelmacher A., Fotó Langer, Budapest, Corvina, 1973; Di Castro F. (ed.), Nel raggio dell’utopia. L’Esperienza fotografica ungherese tra le due guerre, Venice, Marsilio, 1987; Csorba Cs., Magyarfotográfusnök, 1900-1945, Budapest, Enciklopédia, 2000.

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