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War Photographers Exhibition

(This article expired 27.08.2015.)

Date: 20 September 2014 - 30 October 2014, Venue: Embassy of the Czech Republic 26 Kensington Palace gardens W84QY London

The exhibition “War Photographers” organised in cooperation with Czech centre presents the work of three outstanding Czech photographers, soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Army, whose collections of negatives and photographs have remained unknown for almost ninety years. This is a major discovery, as the history of photography reveals very few specific names of photographers from World War I let alone a significant amount of their work.

The Exhibition is open to public from Monday to Thursday 10am to 4pm and on Fridays 10am to 3pm.

 

Gustav Brož
His name was identified from multiple photos and the detailed notes he made on all the photographed events. At the beginning of the war Broz was on the Italian front then was moved further east to the Russian front where he took most of his outstanding images.  In the middle of 1916 he defected to Russia. Pictures like “In our kitchen”, “The Jump of the ambulance dog”, “Field smokehouse” and many other photos have already become treasures of Czech and world photography.

Jan Myšička
Hundreds of Jana Myšička’s negatives and copies have been carefully organized and well kept for over thirty years in the attic of Josef Bohuňovský who received them from Myšička’s daughter, Mrs. Mohelská. Jan Myšička fought in Eger in Hungary and also on the Italian front where he was injured twice.

Jenda Rajman
The Czech Republic possesses a unique collection of photographs thanks to Jenda Rajman, although unfortunately the negatives haven’t been preserved. Rajman was working in a military hospital in Podmelec (now part of Slovenia) where he photographed and documented his everyday life throughout the war. He saw the horrors of the war at close quarters especially when crippled soldiers from the front lines were brought to the hospital. In one image, there is a soldier with paper on his thumb which reads:  50,000 wounded ... These are absolutely unique pictures such as “brain surgery in field conditions”,  a row of ambulances and a view of the “hospital” full of wounded soldiers, which was set up in an occupied joiner’s shop.

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