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Kolář, Viktor
(b. 1941)Ostrava

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts
Auktionsdatum 5.6.2024

Ostrava. 1967. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print. 18 x 24 cm. Photographer's stamp, titled and dated in pencil on the verso.

Viktor Kolář was born in Ostrava, the son of a self-taught filmmaker and photographer. In 1953, he began taking photographs, and soon familiarized himself with the works of renowned photographers, particularly Henri Cartier-Bresson. From the second half of the 1960s, he decided to devote himself fully to photography. In 1964, Kolář had his first solo exhibition. In October 1968, after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, he emigrated to Canada, where he worked as an assistant in the Molybdemite mines and as a worker in the nickel smelters in Manitoba. From 1971-1973, he participated in documenting shopping malls in Montreal. In 1973, however, he returned to Czechoslovakia via Paris and London. – Corners minimally bumped, some irregularities to ferrotype surface, otherwise a fine tonal print in good condition.