Sylvia Plachy: Gifts from the 20th century and beyond – Guided tour in English

On the occasion of Sylvia Plachy's birthday on Saturday, 24 May 2025, at 15 pm, at the exhibition Sylvia Plachy: Gifts from the 20th Century and Beyond, Emese Bíborka Szakács, art historian, the coordinator of the exhibition, will give a guided tour of the exhibition. Our colleagues at the Capa Center spent a week working with Sylvia Plachy to select the exhibited photographs, and she told interesting and intimate stories about her life, the images themselves and how they came to be. You can get a taste of all this during the guided tour!

Date: 24 May 2025, Saturday, 3 pm
Location: Capa Center, first floor
In order to participate in the event a contemporary guided tour ticket is requiered which costs 3500 forint. With the ticket you can also visit our André Kertész exhibition.

Sylvia Plachy is a Hungarian-born photographer living in New York City. As a friend of thelate André Kertész, she is one of the few photographers who represent the tradition of humanist photography in the 21st century in an authentic and modern way.

The exhibition Gifts from the 20th Century and Beyond offers an unconventional overview of her life’s work: some of her selected photographs are also displayed in their publishedversions, allowing many of them to be viewed both as exhibition prints and in publishedformat, supplemented by additional images and texts. This rare, complex presentation guidesthe viewer through the history of the photos, revealing how their meaning can shift indifferent contexts.

Gabriella Csizek, curator

The exhibition is part of the Budapest Photo Festival.