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Dora Faix is an artist and a friend of mine. She makes hand painted tiles, murals, mosaic works and many other things.
She asked me to make a few photographs of one of her mosaic works in an elementary school for her Web site.

She warned me in advance that the scene is quite poorly lit. Hence we decided to make the shots when we had the most daylight available and I took two SB-800s with me.

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Lucien Hervé, French-Hungarian photographer, has passed away after long illness in the 97^th year of his life.

Hervé was born as László Elkán in 1910 in Hódmez?vásárhely, Hungary and was known as the most important architecture photographer of the twentieth century.
He studied economics in Vienna then moved to Paris where he met Robert Capa and Andre Kertész and made photo reports about the war for French magazines but got captured in 1940 and spent time in German captivity.
He started to paint in the early ‘40-s and his paintings were exhibited in 1942 and 1943.

In 1949 he met the architect Le Corbusier and made 650 shots in a day of a building of his that was being built in Marseille. Later he became Le Corbusier’s photographer and spent most of his time on the visual re-interpretation of the architect’s life-work. Eighteen-thousand of Hervé’s half million photographs are related to Corbusier’s works. Le Corbusier said that he had noticed such things on his buildings by Hervé’s pictures that he had not thought of before.

Hervé became the Knight of Order of Honour in 1991 for the role he played in the French Resistance during the Second World War II.

Lucien Hervé links:
Artnet
R A L P H: The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities

Original article in Hungarian on index.hu

Youth Park of Buda was closed in 1982 and has been kept closed since then. Prior to stopping its operation it was a an emblematic venue of rock and pop concerts in Budapest, Hungary for a decade during the communist era.
Due to its scheduled monument status its renovation is quite complicated and still waiting for an appropriate investor.

A Budai Ifjúsági Parkot 1982-ben végelgesen bezárták. Azel?tt budapesti pop- és rock koncerteknek volt jelent?s helyszí­ne a kommunista érában egy évtizeden keresztül.
Védett m?mlék státusza miatt felújí­tása elég komplikált feladat, és régóta vár a megfelel? befektet?re.

Interesting from architectural point of view too /
Építészeti szempontból is jelent?s

Closed since 1982 / 1982 óta zárva

And some HDR again / és végül újra egy kis HDR
No HDR tone mapping HDR nélkül	Gradation to HDR Átmenet HDR-be	Full HDR tone mapping Teljes HDR

Some links about the Park: / Néhány link a BIF-r?l:

• an old photo of the crowd waiting for a concert in the seventies at the Park
  egy régi kép egy koncertre váró tömegröl a 70-es években a Parkban
• an article about the famous concert venue
  egy cikk a hí­res koncert helyszí­nr?l
• an other article about a musical about the Park
  és egy másik cikk egy, a Parkról szóló musicalr?l