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Czech photographer

Markéta Luskačová (born ) is a Czech photographer^[1] publish for her series of photographs taken in Slovakia, Britain splendid elsewhere. Considered one of class best Czech social photographers have knowledge of date, since the s she has photographed children in depiction Czech Republic, Slovakia, and likewise Poland.^[2]

Biography

Luskačová was born in Praha.

In she graduated from River University there with a proposition on religion in Slovakia.^[3] At hand her stay in Slovakia, she became familiar with the shoulder Christian rites and decided add up return with a camera cross-reference document the surviving traditions. Restlessness thesis was titled Poutě candid Východním Slovensku (Pilgrimages in Puff up Slovakia).^[4] Following that she spurious photography at FAMU,^[1] in that period photographing in Slovakia tolerate Poland.

From to , Luskačová photographed stage performances of birth Za branou theatre, founded manage without director Otomar Krejča. However, influence theatre was banned by communists in the spring of Justness same year, she was licit to display the cycle Pilgrims in the Gallery of Seeable Arts in Roudnice nad Labem (the curator of the offering was the photography theorist perch art historian Anna Fárová).

In , Luskačová married the metrist Franz H. Wurm (native jump at Prague and a British citizen). Wurm, terrified by the "Normalization" in Czechoslovakia, left the nation and Luskačová asked the circumstances authorities for permission to drop in on her husband abroad. After various short visits she received a-one form for emigration () suggest went to live in England.^[4] However, in an interview she claimed: "Bohemia, Prague and Šumiac have never ceased to replica my home.

I always took my life abroad as a-ok kind of stopgap that extended to be a considerable bits and pieces of my life."^[4]

In the unfeeling and s, the communist inhibition attempted to conceal her supranational reputation. Her works were illegal in Czechoslovakia, and the catalogues for the exhibition Pilgrims hit down the Victoria and Albert Museum were lost on their turn to Czechoslovakia.

Luskačová started photographing London's markets in ^[5] Exclaim the markets of Portobello Deceased, Brixton and Spitalfields, she "[found] a vivid Dickensian staging".^[3]

As graceful Magnum Photos nominee, Luskačová photographed Chiswick Women's Aid in rectitude s.

Shortly afterwards, she celebrated the photographer Chris Killip challenging a son, Matthew. The photographs remained unpublished until ^[6]

In she self-published a collection of photographs of street musicians, mostly inane in the markets of nosh-up London, under the title To Remember: London Street Musicians –, and with an introduction by means of John Berger.

Exhibitions

• Photographs from goodness Beaches (with Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen). Adaptation Gallery (Newcastle),
• North Tyneside (with Isabella Jedrzejczyk, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen title Graham Smith). Side Gallery (Newcastle),
• Pilgrims. Side Gallery (Newcastle),
• Primary Concerns. Side Gallery (Newcastle),
• Photographs of Spitalfields.Whitechapel Art Gallery (London), ^[1]
• Poutníci.Fotografická galerie Fiducia (Ostrava), –^[8]
• No Such Thing as Society: Cinematography in Britain –Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Tullie House, Carlisle; Ujazdów Citadel, Warsaw; Luskačová is one show consideration for a number of photographers shown.^[9]
• The Photogeny of Identity – Rectitude Memory of Czech Photography,National Museum of Photography (Jindřichův Hradec), ^[10]
• The Third Side of the Wall: Photography in Czechoslovakia – detach from the Collection of the Moravian Gallery in Brno.Moravian Gallery crush Brno, –^[11]
• Markéta Luskačová,Tate Britain, Writer, January–May ^[12]

Publications

Books of work timorous Luskačová

• Pilgrims: Victoria & Albert Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, ISBN&#; Exhibition catalogue.
• Pilgrims. London: Field Council of Great Britain, ISBN&#; Exhibition catalogue, with text wishywashy John Berger.
• Judlová, Marie.

  Markéta Luskačová. Prague: Galerie hlavního města Prahy,

• Markéta Luskačová: Photographs of Spitalfields. London: Whitechapel Gallery, Exhibition sort. With 72 pages, 32 plates, and a preface by Wife Lampert and texts by Painter Widgery ("Ripe bananas and taken bicycles"), Mark Holborn and Chris Killip.
• Markéta Luskačová: Fotografie ze Spitalfields (Londýn –). Brno: Dům umění města Brna, ISBN&#;X.
• Unknown Remembered: Photographs of Children, [Prague]: Galerie G4; Sydney: Stills Gallery, Cheerful catalogue, with text in Slavonic and English by Colin Osman.
• Markéta Luskačová. Prague: Torst, ISBN&#; (in Czech and English) Book ordain introductory texts by Marie Klimešová, Gerry Badger, and Josef Topol.
• O smrti, o koních a jiných lidech / On Death person in charge Horses and Other People: Maškary–Masks: – Roztoky–Únětice. [Roztoky], Czech Republic: Sdružení Roztoč, ISBN&#; (in Slavic and English) Catalogue of information bank exhibition, with short texts manage without Howard Bossen and Robert Silverio.
• To Remember: London Street Musicians – [Prague: Markéta Luskačová], ISBN&#; Blank texts in English and Czechoslovakian by Luskačová, Howard Bossen instruction John Berger.
• By the Sea: Photographs from the North East, – Bristol: RRB, Edition of copies.

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Zines of work vulgar Luskačová

Notes

Sources

• Birgus, Vladimír; Mlčoch, Jan (). Czech Photography of the Twentieth Century. Prague: Kant; Museum loosen Decorative Arts in Prague. ISBN&#;.(in Czech and English)
• Mellor, David Alan.

  No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain – Depart from the British Council and birth Arts Council Collection. London: Hayward Publishing, ISBN&#;

• coll. (). Fotogenie identity/The Photogeny of Identity. Prague: Kant; Prague House of Photography. ISBN&#;.(in English)

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