Boy on a Rocking Horse, 1920.
Fortepan is an online archive of found and donated photographs. The archive is based in the former Forte photo-chemical factory in Vac, Hungary. The factory gave Fortepan its name.
Ákos Szepessy, Miklós Tamási and their friends began collecting discarded photographs in the 1980s. These were mainly negatives. In 2015, a fire damaged and destroyed many of these negatives. With the help of the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, all of the remaining negatives and photographs were digitised and uploaded to an online site. As of August 2020, there were 140,000 images from 1900-1990 in the archive.
The large majority of the photographers are unknown, likewise their subjects.
Mother and Daughter, 1920.
Summer Party, 1920.
Mother and Son, 1921.
Children in the Garden, 1921.
Family Portrait, 1921.
Studio Portrait of a Boy, 1922.
Swimmers, 1922.
A Mother and Father dressed in each other’s clothes with their Son on Christmas Day, 1922.
Woman in a Hammock, Summer 1923.
Three Men, 1923.
Woman on a Rocking Chair, Summer 1923.
Two Nurses by a Riverbank, 1924.
Young Women with a dog, in the garden listening to a Gramophone, 1924.
Doctors, 1924.
Portrait of a Schoolteacher, 1925.
A Bride and a Woman in Uniform, 1925.
A Day Out, 1925.
Portrait of a Woman in front of Billboards, 1926.
Fashionable Friends, 1926.
Outside of the Family Business, 1926.
On the Beach, 1926.
Climbers, 1927.
Mr. Pharmacist, 1927.
Family Portrait, 1927.
Portrait of a Young Girl and Her Toys, 1928.
Smokers, 1928.
Best Friends, 1928.
A Day Out, 1929.
Brother and Sister, 1929.
Friends, 1929.
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