RapidHeartMovement

WHAT IS EXISTENTIALISM? 1. Existence precedes essence. Existence means to emerge or to become; essence implies a static immutable substance. Existence is a process but essence is a product. 2. People are both subjective and objective and must search for truth by living active autentic lives. 3. People search for some meaning to their lives. (Who am I?, Is life worth iving?, Does it have a meaning?) 4. Each of us is responsible for who we are and what we become. As Sartre (1957) stated “man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.” 5. Authentic experience takes precedence over artificial explanations. (i.e., existential

Hungarian-born photographer Gabor Szilasi has lived in Montreal for half a century. Over the decades he has documented the Quebec countryside and its towns and people, artists in their homes and, more recently, urban and architectural views in his native Budapest and in Montreal. Some of the photographs you’ve taken have become iconic. Are you ever surprised at which images people respond to? Sometimes. One was the motorcycle [Motorcyclists at Lake Balaton, 1954]. I thought I missed that shot because the figures are going out of the picture. Their heads are chopped off. And only 10 or 12 years later did I realize that that fact makes