Exposed Memories: Family Pictures in Private and Collective Memory

Contributors

189 András Bán is an art critic and Associate Professor at the University of Miskolc where he has taught visual anthropology since 199. He has published extensively on contemporary art and photography and regularly organizes exhibitions. Since 2008 he has been the director of the Miskolc Museum of Art, MIMA, and is the founder of the Miskolc Institute of Contemporary Art (MICA) as well as the Pedagogical Museum of Contemporary Art. His main works include A fényképezésről (On Photographing, 1984); Fotóelméleti szöveggyűjtemény (An Anthology of Photographic Theory, with László Beke, 198, 199); A video világa (Video World, with László Beke, 198); Körülírt képek: Fényképezés és kultúrakutatás (Traced Images: Photography and Cultural Studies, 1999); A vizuális antropológia felé (Towards a Visual Anthropology: Selected Studies, 2009). He has been editor of the journals Fényképészeti Lapok (Journal of Photography, with László Lugosi-Lugo) 1981–82 and PIK (Journal of Post Intellectual Studies, with Krisztina Erdei, Szilvia Nagy and Dániel Sipos ) since 2009. Zsófia Bán is Associate Professor of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest where she teaches literature and visual culture studies. Her research areas include word and image studies, gender in art and literature, photography and memory, trauma in art and literature, as well as cultural memory. As a critic and essayist, she has published extensively on contemporary art and literature, most recently a comparative study on the work of Péter Forgács and Péter Nádas in the catalogue for the Hungarian Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale. She is also a fiction writer. Her books include Words and Images of Postmodernism in the Late Poetry of William Carlos Williams; Amerikáner (essays on cult works in American culture) and Test Packing (essays on art, literature, travel and memory). Contributors 190 CONTRIBUTORS Ágnes Berecz (PhD, Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 200) teaches modern and contemporary art history at the Pratt Institute, at the Department of Graduate Studies of The Fashion Insitute of Technology and at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The New York correspondent of the Budapest-based art monthly, Műértő, she is currently writing a book about the cultural politics of painting in postwar France. Her writings have been published in Art in America, Artmargins and Praesens as well as in European and US exhibition catalogues. Her most recent work includes “Painting Lessons: Hantaï and His Critics” in the Winter 2008 issue of Art Journal, “Grand Slam: Histories of and by Georges Mathieu” in the Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin, and “Close Encounters: On Pierre Restany and Nouveau Réalisme,” forthcoming in the catalogue of the exhibition New Realisms, 1957–1962 in June 2010 at the Reina Sofia in Madrid. Géza Boros is an art historian in Budapest, working for the Ministry of Culture. His research interests are in Hungarian sculpture and political monuments after 1945. His publications include Emlékművek ’56-nak (Memorials for ’5, Budapest: Institute for the History of the 195 Hungarian Revolution , 199), Statue Park (Budapest: City Hall Publishing House, 2002) and a volume of his collected writings, Emlék/mű. Művészet – Köztér – Vizulitás a rendszerváltozástól a millenniumig (Memorials: Art – Public Space – Visuality from the Politicial Transition through the Millenium, Budapest: Enciklopédia Publishing House, 2001). Eva Forgacs is adjunct Professor of Art History at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. She had taught at the László Moholy-Nagy University in her native Budapest, and was Visiting Professor at UCLA and the College of Santa Fe. She was co-curator (with N. Perloff) of Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky at the Getty Research Institute in 1998. Her books include The Bauhaus Idea and Bauhaus Politics (Pécs: Jelenkor, 1991; Budapest: CEU Press, 1995), László Fehér (1998), and the co-edited volumes (with T. O. Benson) Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes (The MIT Press, 2002), and, (with Susan S. Suleiman) Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary, University of Nebraska Press, 200. She has published essays and reviews in journals, edited volumes, and catalogues. CONTRIBUTORS 191 Marianne Hirsch is Professor of English...