Martin Munkácsi - A Second Too Late

Martin Munkácsi - A Second Too Late

(Modernism in Central Europe - Exhibition at the Washington National Gallery)

Born in Cluj in 1896, Martin Munkácsi worked firstly as a newspaper writer and photographer in Budapest, specializing in sports. In 19928 he moved to Berlin, where his photo of Leni Riefenstahl made the cover of Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, to make in the same year the cover for Time, too.



After Hitler's arrival at power, Munkácsi left for New York, where he worked for Harper's Bazaar and for Life.
Innovatively, he often left the studio to shoot outdoors, on the beach, on farms and fields, at an airport. He produced one of the first articles ilustrated with nude photographs in a popular magazine (Wikipedia).

Black Boys Ashore Lake Tanganyika, was shot in 1931.



Martin Munkácsi died in New York in 1963.

(Modernism in Central Europe)