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Plachy, Sylvia   
Photo by: Károly Kincses,
Esztergom, 1995
 
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Plachy, Sylvia
1943 (Budapest)

She arrived in America in 1956. She studied photography, got to know André Kertész during her school years. A single meeting grew into a father-daughter kind of friendship.

In her pictures, topics and views she cherishes what she experienced in Central-Europe in her childhood. Since 1974 she has been working for Village Voice, but Vogue, Camera Arts, Artforum, The New York Times Magazin, Stern, Geo also published her photographs. Her pictures can be found in the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 1977 she received a Guggenheim-scholarship.

Three album of her pictures were published in the United States, the first, the Unguided Tour won the prize International Center of Photography in 1990, the second, the Red Light is about the sex industry in New York. Her third volume, Signs and Relics, was published in 1999. The pictures of this album were exhibited in Budapest, in the House of Hungarian Photographers.