Rubinek,Gyula

Study in black and white

For a short period of time I owned a nice "4X5" TOYO Field camera, which was a very good tool. However I didn`t have enough time to give the necessary attention to work in big format it. So I sold it after a year already. There are not many photographs left and only very few were made on the Kerepesi Temetö. This is a study in black and white on Polaroid film P/N55. In summer there is always an interesting play between light spots and dark shade on the cemetery,which can add a lot of drama to the many sculptures there. This one has a bit of a hellenistic touch, the tomb of Rubinek Gyula,who must have been a very successfull politician and studied farmer. He was engaged in the hungarian agriculture association and later became a minister of trade. Obviously the sculptures arund the tombstone with a coffin on top symbolise a sowing farmer and two women bringing in the harvest a very positive representation of human life on earth.