Invention and deployment. Conclusions of the oeuvre of photographer Jenő Dulovits

Abstract

Jenő Dulovits (1903–1972) teacher, photographer and specialist is the famous and one of most important creative figure of Hungarian photography technique story. Because of sympathic photos and textual content of the books published between 1936 and 1959 in Hungarian, German, French, Czech, Dutch and Russian, thousands of domestic and European amateur photographers followed his instructions concerning photography. Most of these instructions concerned the backlit lighting and softened pictorial drawing.
The part of technical resolutions based on his inventions and patents, for example the plasticizer ballast lens (DUTO) and the camera planned by him (DUFLEX) carried his name and made him known in the whole world.
The author summarized his twenty years of research on the life and work of Dulovits. From 2001 he recognised and explored the life of Jenő DULOVITS with systematic throughnes. For the study he used beyond secondary data the primary data acquired in his archival research. After finding a relative, he has got the left personal documents and record of DULOVITS. So there was available so much authentic data, that he could write and publish the biography in 2003. He published the collected materials in books, articles, and on many exhibitions. These documents were handed over from 2019 till now to different domestic public collections, libraries and museums in several details, so allowing acces to later generations.
The described, proceedings/method because of its typically can be used another time and in connection of another person.

Photo: Photographed by the Author