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John Albok Biography
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1894 |
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Born Janos Albok in Munkacs, Hungary, November 21. Eldest of eleven children.
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1911 |
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Travels to Debrecen, Hungary to enroll in a master tailor’s school. Receives large silver medal for most outstanding student.
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1921 |
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Emigrates to America at the age of twenty-six and settles in New York City.
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1923 |
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Establishes John Albok - Merchant Tailor, a one-man tailor shop on Madison Avenue
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1929 |
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Wins First Prize in the Eastman Kodak Amateur Picture Contest
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1960 - 1970 |
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CBS discovers Albok’s work, then produces a documentary of Albok’s photographs, “John Albok’s New York” receives an Emmy nomination, and the Cine Golden Eagle Award in Washington, D.C.
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1970 |
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Camera Out of Doors, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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1970 |
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Through the Eye of a Needle, organized by CBS for the International Photography Fair at the New York Coliseum.
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1979 |
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“John Albok-Merchant Tailor” a Swedish documentary film is produced and receives recognition in Cannes, France at the Television Fair. “Those Golden Years” a Swedish documentary portrays Albok as a senior citizen, broadcast on PBS-WNET ch. 13.
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1982 |
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John Albok dies at age 87 on January 9
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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1998
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“New York: A Sidewalk View” John Albok, Helen Levitt, Walter Rosenblum at Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas. May 1 - June 13, 1998.
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1997
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“Through the Eye of the Needle” Retrospective exhibition at Budapest Gallery, Hungary. Approximately 120 photographs. Catalog published in conjunction with the exhibit. Traveling exhibit.
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1994
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“John Albok’s New York: A Personal Vision” Laurence Miller Gallery, New York. October 27 - December 3, 1994.
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1982
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Retrospective exhibition, Tailored Images, opens at the Museum of the City of New York.
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1980
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Two-person exhibition, New York in the Thirties-Faces and Facades, with Berenice Abbott, organized by the Museum of the City of New York, makes a debut in Berlin and later in Heidelberg, Germany.
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1977
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One-person exhibition at the Pratt Institute-School of Art and Design, Brooklyn, NY.
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1976
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One-person exhibition, The Hungarian Chronicler, at Magyar Munkasmozgalmi Muzeum, the worker’s museum in the Budavari Palace, Budapest, Hungary.
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1975
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One-person exhibition, New York City During the Roosevelt Years, 1933-1945, at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY.
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1939
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Invited to exhibit and lecture to The Rockefeller Center Camera Club at Radio City Music Hall.
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1938
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First one-person exhibition, Faces of the City, at the Museum of the City of New York,
curated by Grace Mayer. Wins fifteen prizes in the prestigious
New York Herald Tribune Amateur Photo Contest between the years 1938 and 1942.
Opens “World’s Fair Studio” a portrait studio on 96th St. between Lexington and Park Avenues.
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