Dear All,
As I shared with you earlier, Judit's family (see Judit on our Core Team) are in Tokyo at present, where Tamas Révész, Judit's father, shows his brilliant photos of New York until August 5, 2004. I attended the opening ceremony on July 22, which was interesting, not least because particularly Hungary was grappling with a glimpse of "national humilition." Tamas Révész won the Pulitzer Prize while still living in Hungary, however, subsequently, he left Hungary to live in New York.
Most warmly!
Evelin

Iconic photo exhibits says 'I love NYC'
The Asahi Shimbun, Number 18203, Friday, July 23, 2004, page 21

"New York," an exhibition of about 60 black and white photos of the American metropolis by prize-winning Hungarian photographer Tamas Revesz, opened Thursday night at the UMU gallery in Tokyo's Roppongi district.
The exhibit, sponsored by The Asahi Shimbun and the American and Hungarian embassies, continues until Aug. 5.
Revesz won a Pulitzer Memorial Award for his photo book "Budapest A City Before the Millenium," in 1997, the year he also won a green card through the lottery system that allowed him to live in the United States. He moved to the New York area.
"I wanted to show that New York is not just a jungle of skyscprapers," said Revesz, whose New York photos first appeared in book form in 2000. "I wanted to show that it's a fascinating wonderful place to live. Unfortunately, a year after they came out they became iconic."
The opening of the Tokyo exhibition was attended by dignitaries from both Revesz' homeland and his adopted country, among them Hungarian charge d'affairs Istvan Perosa and U.S. Ambassador Howard Baker.
Both seemed eager to claim teh photographer as their own, with Perosa praising Revesz' vision as purely Hungarian. Baker praised Revesz for the "liberating dynamic of diversity" in his photos.