Tamas Revesz Photography


Opening UMU Gallery, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo JULY 22, 2004 Opening Remarks by: Mr. TOSHIYUKI TAKAGI, Board of Directors, Asahi Shimbun Remarks by: Ambassador HOWARD BAKER, US Embassy, Mr. ISTVAN PEROSA, Minister, Hungarian Embassy, TAMAS REVESZ Toast by: Mr. HIDEKAZU KITAMURA, General Manager, Special Projectss Division, TV Asahi Dignitaries Representing the Tokyo Metropolitan Government: Mr. MAKATO ITO, Chief of Protocol, Headquarter of Government Tokyo, Mr. YOSHIHIRO HAMADA, Director of Cultural Facilities Reform, Culture promotion Division, Bureau of Citizens and Cultural Japan, Mr. SHOGI SUZUKI, Vice President of Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Photographs on opening by ANDRAS REVESZ Sponsor The Asahi Shimbun Supporters The Sister City Program of the City of New York, TAC America Inc., American Embassy Tokyo, Winthrop H. Smith, Jr, Cultural Exchange Foundation, Washington, D.C., Transatlantic Culture Exchange, Hungarian Embassy Tokyo, Jewel Spiegel Gallery, NJ Nielsen Bainbridge, NJ


UMU Exhibittion Hall on Roppongi Hill, Tokyo	Mada Hironobu, Asahi Shimbun, Hide Kimura and Miho Kobayashi, Tamas Revesz	Building the show

Ambassador Howard Baker, Tamas Revesz	New York Cafe behind the the exhibition	Ambassador Howard Baker, Istvan Perosa, Minister, Tamas Revesz

Anna Revesz, Yoshio Murakami, Asahi Shimbun, Ambassador Howard Baker, Tamas Revesz	Mada Hironobu, Anna Revesz	Tamas Revesz, Ambassador Howard Baker

Yoshio Murakami, Asahi Shimbun, Margot Carrington	Anna Revesz	Yoshio Murakami, Toshiyuki Takagi, Mada Hironobu, Asahi Shimbun

Yoshio Murakami, Toshiyuki Takagi, Asahi Shimbun	Anna Revesz, Louis Templado , Asahi Shimbun	Paul Kosieraczki, Kodak Japan, Ambassador Howard Baker

Tamas Revesz	Akiko Fujikawa, Asahi Shimbun, Kimie Itakura, Asahi Camera	Professor Evelin Lindner, Margot Carrington
INTERNATIONAL TRAVELING PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION “NEW YORK” BY TAMAS REVESZ NEW YORK in UMU Exhibition Hall, Roppongi Hill, TOKYO Japan, 2004 Endorsed by the Sister City Program of the City of New York the traveling exhibition premiered in Tokyo in 2004 as part of the New York Sister Cities Program. The traveling exhibition premiered in Tokyo in 2004 as part of the New York Sister Cities Program. At the Tokyo opening, the Senator Howard Baker, United States Ambassador to Japan, said, “Clearly, Mr. Revesz has managed to perfectly capture the very spirit of the city in this series of beautiful photographs. Of course, his technique is fantastic. Beyond that, however, one has to be impressed by the extent to which each photograph reveals the complexity of New York and tells us a story about the city and its people. Nancy Soderberg, President of the Sister City Program of the City of New York, has offered support and praise for Tamas Revesz and his “New York” photo exhibition as a Sister City project. She said “Mr. Revesz’ photography reveals new perspectives on New York City to the people of Budapest and offers further cultural understanding between New York City and her Sister Cities. Jim Mairs, editor of Revesz’ New York book at the W.W. Norton publishing house in New York, said, “These are some of the most beguiling and intriguing photographs of New York City ever taken. With a photographic eye not unlike his fellow countryman, Andre Kertesz, Revesz captures the essence of the city in an often surprising way.” Following Budapest, the exhibition will travel over the next years to the other New York Sister Cities – Beijing, Cairo, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, London, Madrid, Rome and Santo Domingo. ABOUT THE EXHIBITION CONTENTS • 62 photographs – archival black and white, Piezography prints, reproduced on 100% cotton rag, acid-free Hahnemuhle paper, numbered limited editions, matted and framed. SIZE • 38 horizontal frames: 25 x 21 inch (63.75 x 53.55 cm) • 24 vertical frames: 20 x 26 inch (51 x 66.3 cm) CONTACTS Cultural Exchange Foundation: Anita Semjen Executive Director www.cef-us.org/home.htm Asemjen@gmail.com Tamas Revesz: tamas.revesz@gmail.com