Click and check how Budapest looked in the 60s on the B&W photos of a world-known Polish photographer
Zofia Rydet started to take photos in the 1940s as an autodidact, and she was so talented that today she is the most well-known Polish photographer. Because of her love, she visited Budapest many times in the 1960s and the 1970s commemorating the everydays of the Hungarian capital. You can see some of her masterpieces below.
She started a monumental project in 1978 to take a photo of every Polish home.
St Stephen’s basilica in 1967. Fortepan / Zofia Rydet
Therefore, she made more than 20 thousand photos about everyday people in their backyards or living rooms.
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The result is like an interesting visual census. Only her death could make her finish the project in 1997 but
Fortepan / Zofia Rydet
it made her world-known.
Therefore, her photos can be found everywhere in the world from New York to Paris.
The market of Fény street in Budapest. Fortepan / Zofia Rydet
Meanwhile, her negatives remained by her family and a foundation has been taking care of the heritage since 2011.
Fortepan / Zofia Rydet
That is how one can check her photos on the fortepan.hu, HERE.
Budapest, 5th district. Fortepan / Zofia Rydet
The photographer visited Hungary 5 times because
she was in love with a Hungarian lawyer.
Győr in 1967. Fortepan / Zofia Rydet
Budapest, 12th district, Széchenyihegy Photo: Fortepan / Zofia Rydet
Source: 24.hu, fortepan.hu
