Title: Budapest 1956 - 2006
Photographer(s): Giorgio Cirillo
Writer(s): Giorgio Cirillo
Designer(s): Franco De Vecchis
Publisher(s): RAI ERI, Roma, Italy
Year: 2006
Print run:
Language(s): Italian
Pages: 156
Size: 22,5 x 22,5 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition:
Print: Sintesi Grafica, Roma, Italy
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Hungary, 1956 - 2006
ISBN: 9788839714077
There is still much to write about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, as the Hungarian October, fifty years after its outbreak, continues to offer opportunities for reflection. for discovery. for research. Few texts are able to fully render the emotions, moods, suggestions and emotion that continue to be conveyed by the image of a girl armed with a parabellum pistol posing next to the smoking carcass of a Soviet tank in a Pest square; of a student holding an old musket and standing guard at his university faculty in Buda; of a worker with a bandolier over his shoulder and rifle in hand taking the tram in Osepei to the nearest barricade in the centre. This book has been 'written' with images in order to respond to the ambitious intention of rendering a complete account of the Hungarian Revolution and a profound analysis of the incisive and important legacy of '56 in the Budapest of the third millennium.