Martin Munkacsi, 1929 Martin Munkacsi, Erika Fiedler in the Reeds, 1934
Martin Munkacsi, 1929 Martin Munkacsi, 1929
Martin Munkacsi, Greta Garbo, 1932 Martin Munkacsi, Bathing Beauties, Berlin, 1929
Martin Munkacsi, Dans l’Air. 1935

< Martin Munkacsi, Boys running into the surf at Lake Tanganyika, Liberia, 1930
Martin Munkacsi, Boy on the beach, 1930 >
"For me this photograph was the spark that ignited my enthusiasm. I suddenly realized that, by capturing the moment, photography was able to achieve eternity. It is the only photograph to have influenced me. This picture has such intensity, such joie de vivre, such a sense of wonder that it continues to fascinate me to this day." He paraphrased this many times during his life, including the quotation, "I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over."


Richard Avedon said of Munkácsi,
"He brought a taste for happiness and honesty and a love of women to what was, before him, a joyless, loveless, lying art. Today the world of what is called fashion is peopled with Munkácsi's babies, his heirs.... The art of Munkácsi lay in what he wanted life to be, and he wanted it to be splendid. And it was."
"He brought a taste for happiness and honesty and a love of women to what was, before him, a joyless, loveless, lying art. Today the world of what is called fashion is peopled with Munkácsi's babies, his heirs.... The art of Munkácsi lay in what he wanted life to be, and he wanted it to be splendid. And it was."
< Martin Munkacsi, Nude in Straw Hat, 1944
Martin Munkacsi, Healthy bodies, Harper's Bazaar, 1935 >
Martin Munkacsi, Healthy bodies, Harper's Bazaar, 1935 >
Martin Munkacsi, Nude with parasol, 1935

Martin Munkacsi, Woman in Rowboat, 1928
Martin Munkácsi, Nice, 1930 Martin Munkacsi, Seashore Before the Thunderstorm, 1930
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