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| Author: | Pavel Scheufler |
| Category: | Books, Photography |
| Language: | English and Czech |
| Translation: | Gwendolyn Albert |
| Page count: | 210 |
| Binding: | Hbk |
| ISBN: | 978-80-7437-317-6 |
| EAN: | 9788074373176 |
| Date: | 2020 |
| Issue number: | 1. |
| Price: | 35 EUR |
| Size: | 23 × 21 cm |
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This book makes available, to an extent never before published, what are frequently unique photographs from the collection of Jindřich Vávra kept by the Moravian Museum in Brno. Vávra, who was not just a collector, but also especially a naturalist and physician, purposefully collected photographic documentation of his overseas travels, including two circumnavigations of the globe. His photographic collection from 1865–1879, numbering 1,300 photographs, is quite extraordinary. The most impressive shots are from East and Southeast Asia, Australia and North Africa. In addition to a number of anonymous works, Vávra's collection also includes albumen positives from world-renowned photographers such as Samuel Bourne and Wilhelm Burger. For his services, among other awards, Jindřich Vávra received from Emperor Franz Joseph I the coat of arms and title of “Knight of the Far Seas”.
Czech Photography of the 20th Century, published simultaneously in Czech and English versions, is the first book to present the main trends, figures, and works of Czech photography from the beginning to the end of the last century to such a large extent. Its 517 plates include not only the most important, well-known photographs and photomontages, but also works that have long been forgotten or are published for the first time. The book is arranged in seventeen chapters, supplemented with chronologies of the most important events in twentieth-century Czech photography and history.