Adam Magyar

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Adam Magyar
Born1972 (age 52–53)
Debrecen, Hungary
NationalityHungarian
Known forPhotography and video art
Notable workStainless, [1] Urban Flow, Squares, Array [2]
Website magyaradam.com

Adam Magyar (born 1972) is a photographer and video artist.

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Life and work

Adam Magyar was born in Hungary in 1972. He began taking pictures in his late twenties, when he started wandering Asian cities capturing their street life in images of Indian street vendors, wandering holy men, and students in an exclusive Himalayan school. Obsessed with finding innovative new uses for digital technology, Magyar's work quickly evolved from conventional documentary photography to the radically experimental and surreal. [3]

Among Magyar's numerous inventions is a way to insert motion into still images. [4] In his attempt to comprehend the interface of time's infinite flow in the world's modern metropolises, he has developed techniques to capture, on a single visual plane, disjointed, fragmented images of parts of an individual or group on a crowded street. [5] A theme that recurs throughout much of his body of work is based on interlinking yet distinct ideas and techniques that aid us to see the inherent beauty found in the everyday. [6] His unique vision and technical abilities has inevitably led him to modify and even develop his own hardware and software. In his Urban Flow and Stainless works he uses the slit-scan photography technique, known also for use in photo finish cameras, as well as in other, often industrial, techniques. [7] He uses a high-speed camera in his video series entitled Stainless, in which he captures at extremely high speeds densely populated urban areas. [8] Magyar's work fuses the objective, even mathematical reality with the purely subjective, creating a unique fusion of technology and art.

Magyar spoke at several image festivals and conferences including TEDSalon Berlin, Bits of Knowledge, Adam Magyar: Photographing the Unfolding of Daily Life, Admiralspalast, Berlin, Germany (2014), [8] TEDxGateway, Adam Magyar, Mumbai, India (2014), [9] PopTech: Pop Casts, Adam Magyar: Photos of Time, Camden, ME (2013) [10] [3]

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Collections

His work is included in several public collections including:

Publications

Scholarships and awards

References

  1. ↑ "Adam Magyar - Stainless". Adam Magyar - Stainless. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Adam Magyar - Array". Adam Magyar - Array. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Einstein's Camera". Medium.com. Aug 22, 2014. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ Leland, John (Mar 26, 2015). "A Slice of Times Square, Always in Motion". The New York Times . Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  5. ↑ Feinstein, Jon (Apr 11, 2019). "Seven Photographers Who Are Rewriting Street Photography's Rigid Rules". Vice.com. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  6. ↑ Bierend, Doug (Apr 7, 2015). "Your Commute Is Beautiful, and Adam Magyar Can Prove It". Medium.com. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  7. ↑ Callahan, Sophia (Feb 23, 2015). "See Time Stop and Space Stretch in Adam Magyar's Latest Slit-Scans". Vice.com. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  8. 1 2 "Ever feel alone in a crowded place? This artist gets you". Ideas.ted.com. Aug 7, 2014. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  9. ↑ "Adam Magyar". Tesxgateway.com. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Adam Magyar: Photos of time". Vimeo.com. Nov 5, 2013. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  11. ↑ | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/116114/stainless | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |.{{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ↑ | https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/exhibitions/current/_feature-exhibitions/2024-02-10-adam-magyar-matter.html |.{{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. ↑ "Matter | ToBe Gallery Budapest | ToBe Gallery". www.tobegallery.hu. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Urban Times | Stephen Bulger Gallery". www.bulgergallery.com. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  15. ↑ "Times Square Arts: Times Square Arts | Times Square Art". Arts.timessquarenyc.org. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  16. ↑ "INAUGURAN STAINLESS DE ADAM MAGYAR". Elindependientedehidalgo.com.mx. May 4, 2019. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  17. ↑ "B24 - Galéria". B24galeria.hu. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  18. ↑ "Ádám Magyar "Stainless"". Mfah.org. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  19. ↑ "Julie Saul Gallery - Artists - Adam Magyar". Archived from the original on 2019-09-04. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
  20. ↑ "Adam Magyar Kontinuum - Griffin Museum of Photography". Griffinmuseum.org. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  21. 1 2 "Light Work / Adam Magyar: Kontinuum". Lightwork.org. 17 January 2013. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  22. ↑ "Preparing For DarknessVol. 3: I'm Not There". Selected-artists.com. 12 November 2018. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  23. ↑ "Festival Locomotion – Soirée de lancement". Mjcnancy.fr. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  24. ↑ "Preparing For DarknessVol. 2: Breaking God's Heart –". Selected-artists.com. 2 September 2018. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  25. ↑ "SCHLOSS PLÜSCHOW - Programm der Eröffnung". Archived from the original on 2019-04-13. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
  26. ↑ "Preparing For Darkness, Vol. 1 – selected-artists". 25 October 2017. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  27. ↑ "| Preparing For Darkness – Ausstellung". Kuehlhaus-berlin.com. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  28. ↑ "IMMANENCE". Selected-artists.com. 31 March 2017. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  29. ↑ "IMMANENCE - group exhibition Pictura Groningen, The Netherlands - 19 March to 30 April 2017". Endaodonoghue.com. Mar 16, 2017. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  30. ↑ "Budapest Photo Festival | Accentuated Reality | Faur Zsofi Gallery | Artsy". Artsy.net. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  31. ↑ "Saitama Triennale 2016: Envisioning the Future! - Announcements - e-flux". E-flux.com. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  32. ↑ "Infinite Pause: Photography and Time". Mfah.org. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  33. ↑ Design, Ringling College of Art and (Feb 25, 2016). "Ringling College Willis Smith Gallery Presents Photography & Film Constructs On View from March 5 - April 2, 2016". GlobeNewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  34. 1 2 "Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photography". Nypl.org. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  35. ↑ "NIGHT ON EARTH". Selected-artists.com. 4 February 2017. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  36. ↑ "IDEAS CITY Conference". Newmuseum.org. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  37. ↑ "MEGAPOLIS | ERES-Stiftung". Eres-stiftung.de. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  38. ↑ [ dead link ]
  39. ↑ "The Helsinki Photography Biennial 2012 opens in Finland". Archived from the original on 2019-08-14. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
  40. ↑ eMuseum. "Collections | The MFAH Collections". Mfah.org. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  41. ↑ eMuseum. "Collections | The MFAH Collections". Mfah.org. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  42. ↑ "Works – Collections – The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art". Art.nelson-atkins.org. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  43. ↑ "The history of photo sharing explored in new library exhibition highlighting the social side of photography". Artdaily.cc. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  44. ↑ "Contact Sheet 170: Adam Magyar – Light Work". Lightwork.org. 15 April 2013. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  45. ↑ Contact Sheet 170: Kontinuum: Adam Magyar, Light Work: 9780935445824: Amazon.com: Books. Light Work Visual Studies. 2012. ISBN   978-0935445824.
  46. ↑ Contact Sheet 170. Light Work Visual Studies. 2012. ISBN   978-0-935445-82-4 . Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  47. ↑ "IPA 2009 Winner / squares / Adam Magyar". Photoawards.com. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
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