Faces I Come From (Or Go To): Visages/Voyages – vois l’âge…

by Pier Marton | Aug 31, 2010 | Antisemitism, Art, Ego, Highlights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Magyar, Photo, Time, Travel | 5 comments

VARIATIONS ON A (HUNGARIAN JEWISH) THEME

the poet György Faludy

the composer György Ligeti

the mathematician Paul Erdös
the pianist/composer Ervin Nyiregyházi
“A new Liszt……..and that truly seems to be the case, assuming that Liszt was actually this good”
— Arnold Schoenberg, 1935
“He must be insane” — Toru Takemitsu, 1982
by Irving Penn
the photographer André Kertész (a friend of my father)
the photographer Lucien Hervé (another friend of my father).
the artist Béla Czóbel (another friend of my father)

the artist/photographer Ervin Marton (my father)

From Wikipedia: Budapest is the most Nobel Prize dense capital in the world after Vienna.
10 out of 15 Hungarian Nobel Prize winners were of Jewish religion or ethnicity.
— MORE ABOUT HUNGARIAN JEWS —

5 Comments

Yona on September 1, 2010 at 12:36 pm

Beaux visages riches d’histoires et d’Histoire.
Tourments qui se lisent sur leurs traits. Regards de feu. Tensions d’espoir. Symboles forts que tes choix.
- Pier Marton on September 1, 2010 at 12:39 pm
  
  Merci Yona!
chloé renée on November 12, 2010 at 12:21 pm

intense faces.
visages de pensée, d’espoir, de passion, et de beaucoup d’autres choses de la vie aussi, surement, que nous ne voulons/pouvons plus y voir, que leur disparition a entrainées avec elle. l’ame humaine est complexe et quand le personnage devient célèbre (célébré), l’histoire efface le quotidien, le moins glorieux, le mesquin. ha. et nous, on vit bien avec?
Pini on June 19, 2015 at 12:54 am

A richness that engages curiosity about the subjects.
juuulietteJulia Juhasz on June 19, 2015 at 2:01 pm

loved this Pier!

News & Olds

BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus