Erno Vadas Portrait

After I wrote about Erno Vadas and his photograph ‘The Factory’, I searched for a portrait of him. No luck with Google, so I asked ChatGPT, which replied:

A clear portrait photograph of Ernő Vadas, the Hungarian photographer known for his iconic images from the 1920s and 1930s, is not readily available online. His photographic work, celebrated for capturing Budapest and the Hungarian countryside, is featured in collections and retrospectives, but images of Vadas himself are rare or unavailable on public sites.

For a deeper look into his work and influence, you may want to explore resources like the Mai Manó House blog, which discusses his contributions to Hungarian photography, or visit exhibits in Hungarian archives that often showcase photographers from this era, though direct portraits of Vadas may be sparse.

These AI models write such tripe, saying a portrait is not readily available online. Plainly, ChatGPT did not look very far in the site to which it directed me. So, with only the avenue of the Mai Manó House blog, I looked and there was a lovely portrait of Vadas Ernő taken by Vadas Jolán in 1957. The image is © the Magyar Fotográfiai Múzeum and I have now to write to them after the fact and hope they are OK with me sharing it.

I shall ask whether the photographer and the subject are related. And you may have noticed that the first name comes after the last name. We discovered that in Budapest when we visited and saw that Franz Liszt is Liszt Ferenc in Hungarian