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The largest Paris private photo-gallery - Galerie VU is currently featuring
selection of its collections in the Prague Langhans Gallery. What you can
see there is work of 28 contemporary photographers from different
countries of the world. As the Langhans Gallery spokeswoman Dagmar
Cujanova says, it is the first time they decided to present another
commercial gallery in their rooms.
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ArtsAn Insider's View of the Lodz Ghetto: the Photos of Henryk Ross
Henryk Ross (1910-1991), a photographer appointed by the Jewish Council in
the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, took thousands of photographs documenting life
in the ghetto. Kate Barrette has more on an exhibition displaying a
selection of the Lodz photos, which are being shown for only the second
time.
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ArtsCzech Press Photo - "a mirror of our lives"
Photography is a great phenomenon of the contemporary world. It captures
pieces of our lives and saves them for the future. This is even
intensified in the case of press photography which reports news, tells
stories and mediates events for the general public. Although we see press
photos in newspapers every day, you realize their real significance only
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Czechs in HistoryFrantisek Drtikol - Dreams of shadow and light
In this edition of Czechs in History we look at the life and work of Czech
photographer Frantisek Drtikol, arguably one of the most important
photographers of the early half of the 20th century. Born in 1883 in the
mining town of Pribram, west of Prague, Drtikol would go on to study
photography in Munich, where he would be heavily influenced by the Art
Nouveau. Early on he divided his time among both drawing and photography,
but focused primarily on the latter upon his return home; both as an art
form and as a means for making a living. In the year 1910 he opened his
famous photo studio in Prague, where he shot portraits of some of the most
important figures of his day: Czechoslovakia's first president T.G.
Masaryk, his foreign minister Edvard Benes, the composer Leos Janacek and
many others whose names are legend now.
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Current AffairsBritain pays last respects to Czech-born theatre photographer Ivan Kyncl
On Tuesday, theatre directors, actors and playwrights gathered at the Royal
National Theatre in London to pay their last respects to the Czech-born
stage photographer, Ivan Kyncl, who died of a heart attack aged 51. Ivan
Kyncl was one of many Czech artists whose work is better known abroad than
at home and the Czech Republic still owes him an exhibition of his
photographs.
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Current AffairsEyes Wide Open: a new exhibit and book present the work of Frantisek Drtikol
Frantisek Drtikol was one of the most important Czech photographers of the
20th century. His early work was influenced by Art Nouveau and he was a
master of light, line and balance. This week a travelling exhibition
titled Eyes Wide Open was opened in the small town of Pribram, south-west
of Prague, where Drtikol was born. As Jan Velinger now reports the show is
slated to be a great success, bringing to light some lesser-known works
from private collections the broader public may have not seen before.
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