"... the Author is a shrinking statue on the very edge of the stage of literature."

- Roland Barthes

The ’Death of the Author’ has long been one of the most well-known topos of modern literary discourse, almost a cliché. Although Roland Barthes, in his essay of the same title, extends his theory to other genres (through the examples of Van Gogh and Tchaikovsky), the other most dominant analytical attitude in the visual and media arts, besides theoretical and historical approaches, is still the examination of the person of the creator/author. But what can we do with works whose context is dubious, whose author is unidentifiable and whose creative intent will never be known? The exhibition Unknown, Untitled selects unidentifiable images from the collection of the Hungarian Museum of Photography and seeks to provoke for answers.

Special thanks: Vera A Fehér, Ábel Németh