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Snapshots from the everyday life

of the former Csongrád County

The photos of Zoltán Enyedi documented Csongrád County how he tries to discipline”, said writer László Németh, who
where the ever-shrinking agriculture-related way of life and returned to Hódmezővásárhely several times, where he had
urbanization with its new industries and services coexisted, worked as a teacher for a few years after World War II. Th e

from Szeged to the smallest villages. The image of the region region could only partially keep the talents of Szeged and

changed significantly as the people’s habits changed, from the county, who had their great achievements in the fi elds

the houses to their work or how they spent their leisure time. of culture and science: like Németh, who left Vásárhely aft er
On 1 January 1950, after Szentes, Hódmezővásárhely became 1948, Zoltán Enyedi was only able to photograph Professor

the new county seat. At the same time, independent towns Albert Szent-Györgyi, who left the country a year earlier, dur-
and villages were organized from the former farm centres, ing his visit in 1973.
including Kardoskút, Vásárhelykutas and Mártély, separated In the pictures of photojournalist Zoltán Enyedi, both the
from Hódmezővásárhely, as well as Forráskút and Kistemp- positives and the negatives are found sometimes as the main
lomtanya, which were separated from Kiskundorozsma. message, and sometimes only in the background.
Szeged also lost its “world of farms” in two stages and thus His works were for the current moment, but have since be-
about eighty percent of its area, and the country’s second come historical documents.
most populous city after Budapest fell back to fi ft h place. Zoltán Enyedi said: “the press photographer is an interme-

“Nothing characterises the philosophy of an age bett er than diary between the events of life and the readers, and this re-
the way it thinks about thinking. Not only how he thinks; - quires a great interest in the affairs of the world.”

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