Adam Magyar

Adam Magyar
Born1972 (age 53–54)
Debrecen, Hungary
Known forPhotography and video art
Notable workStainless, Urban Flow, Squares, Array
Websitemagyaradam.com

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

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.

One of Magyar's inventions is inserting motion into still images. In his attempt to communicate the interface of time's flow in the world's modern metropolises, he developed techniques to capture, on a single visual plane, disjointed, fragmented images of parts of an individual or group on a crowded street. A theme that recurs throughout much of his body of work is based on interlinking distinct ideas and techniques that focus on revealing the inherent beauty found in the everyday. His vision and technical abilities led him to modify and 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. He uses a high-speed camera in his video series entitled Stainless, in which he captures densely populated urban areas at extremely high speeds.

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), TEDxGateway, Adam Magyar, Mumbai, India (2014), PopTech: Pop Casts, Adam Magyar: Photos of Time, Camden, ME (2013)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Collections

His work is included in several public collections including:

Publications

Scholarships and awards

References

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  8. 1 2 "Ever feel alone in a crowded place? This artist gets you". Ideas.ted.com. Aug 7, 2014. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
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  43. ↑ "The history of photo sharing explored in new library exhibition highlighting the social side of photography". Artdaily.cc. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
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  47. ↑ "IPA 2009 Winner / squares / Adam Magyar". Photoawards.com. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.