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»The world of — Janos Eifert » We were all born to live in the ark. Time is flowing with us like a river towards the other shore, and few of us are able to stop it. After photography was born in the nineteenth century together with the developing civilian life, many exclaimed so: nthe art of painting has come to an end”. Time went on slowly and the art of painting did not vanish. ,,Photography stiffened time into an image” - the next sigh of anxiety came. Yes, indeed, in the course of documentary photography it did, when its role was to do so. But the photo-artist - although his camera often works with a fraction of a moment of time - creates the image with his own nerves and the machine is only an obedient servant in his hands. Remember the photos of Janos Eifert! The dancers gliding past make you weave their steps and motions on and on in your mind. You do not even need to shut your eyes to hear the music and see the torrent of the revolving couples. The image Eifert captured in a photo is rolling, flowing, streaming on in you. You can feel that you are not alone any more. Running towards the other shore is not hopeless, because the other shore is rolling UVA Have you ever seen one of his early photos: , The gardeners hand?" Callous hands, encrusted by mud, sun and hard work are holding planted life like a protecting shield. It is a seedling, which will take the courage to fight against the destructive elements of nature in order to grow to be a productive plant. We do not know, whether it will be able to win its perpetual battle, but we have no doubt about its fate. With this plant time has stopped indeed. It was not the camera and not the master taking the photo of the image who has turned the river into a still lake, but the artist in János Eifert, the artist composing in his heart and in his soul. He is the ark himself, and is able to retain those from the end who entrust themselves to him. This is the way his photos become eternal, and it is a merely matter of detail whether he takes this miracle with a modern Japanese camera or with an old-fashioned machine. It is thought that is important, which is materialized in the atoms of the perceptible world and became the truth of eternal validity. Dance, form and nature were transformed into his own world in him. His universe has no borders limited by time. It is endless like nature, which transforms and shows us mostly its miraculous faces, but it never fades. Works of art begin where man becomes an artist. The artist continues to exist where work of art becomes eternal. Janos Eifert does not see the world through the lens, but the world makes its way in front of his lens. The artist selects from the details in an artistic way. Digital photography and compu
