Photographer - Ladislav Sitensky
Nationality: Czech
Subject of photography: landscape photographer, WW2 photographer
Life dates: 7 August 1919 – 14 November 2009
Sample of work:
www.312.jinak.cz/home/history/sitensky.html
Ladislav Sitensky was born in Prague in 1919 and started taking photographs at the age of 14. In 1937 the editorial office of Ozveny gave him a trial assigment of a pictorial essay on the Prague fire service, which Sitensky calls "photographers's final examination"; he passed it with flying colours. Photographing the funeral of President T. G. Masaryk was a great professional achievement for the eighteen year-old Sitensky.
The story of Sitensky as war photographer began in March 1939 with his photographs of the Nazi motorized units in the streets of Prague; that same year he left for Paris, to join the Czechoslovak army in France. After the fall of France he went to England, where until the end of the war he worked with the Czech command of the RAF, creating a remarkablecollection of images of pilots, fighter planes and airports. At the end of war, after photogrphing the victory celebrations in London, he returned to Prague - a man marked by the war, an artist formed by the war.
One of Sitensky's first exhibitions was in Harrods in London in 1941. After the war, even though Sitensky was a respected photographer, he was very rarely allowed to exhibit his work during communist times. Now and then, his photographs were included in group exhibitions, but before 1988 he had only one smaller solo show in Prague in 1979 (when he was 60). The situation began to change in 1988, when he had two solo exhibitions, one in Brno and one in the Prague Municipal Museum. His war photographs were shown for the first time in Prague as late in 1994 (in the Prague Municipal Museum, with an exhibition called Wings of Freedom). Some were in his big retrospective solo exhibition in Prague Castle in 1999.
A representative collection of his war photographs was shown in Pilsen last year in the Great Synagogue; the exhibition covered his war days in France, at the beginning of the war and then at Dunkirk, and in Britain.
Links:
www.morphiro.tumblr.com/post/85108836052/ladislav-sitensky-putovani-na-kole-stn-1963
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Sitensky
www.sitensky.eu/
www.tumblr.com/search/ladislav%20sitensky
www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/czech-world-war-ii-photographer-turns-his-camera-to-the-heavens-for-new-exhibition
www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/wartime-photography-pays-tribute-to-international-cooperation
www.archives.dailytimes.com.pk/national/16-Nov-2009/world-war-ii-photographer-sitensky-dies
www.312.jinak.cz/home/history/sitensky.html
www.dalje.com/en-world/czech-war-photographer-sitensky-dies/281793
Subject of photography: landscape photographer, WW2 photographer
Life dates: 7 August 1919 – 14 November 2009
Sample of work:
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www.312.jinak.cz/home/history/sitensky.html
Ladislav Sitensky was born in Prague in 1919 and started taking photographs at the age of 14. In 1937 the editorial office of Ozveny gave him a trial assigment of a pictorial essay on the Prague fire service, which Sitensky calls "photographers's final examination"; he passed it with flying colours. Photographing the funeral of President T. G. Masaryk was a great professional achievement for the eighteen year-old Sitensky.
The story of Sitensky as war photographer began in March 1939 with his photographs of the Nazi motorized units in the streets of Prague; that same year he left for Paris, to join the Czechoslovak army in France. After the fall of France he went to England, where until the end of the war he worked with the Czech command of the RAF, creating a remarkablecollection of images of pilots, fighter planes and airports. At the end of war, after photogrphing the victory celebrations in London, he returned to Prague - a man marked by the war, an artist formed by the war.
One of Sitensky's first exhibitions was in Harrods in London in 1941. After the war, even though Sitensky was a respected photographer, he was very rarely allowed to exhibit his work during communist times. Now and then, his photographs were included in group exhibitions, but before 1988 he had only one smaller solo show in Prague in 1979 (when he was 60). The situation began to change in 1988, when he had two solo exhibitions, one in Brno and one in the Prague Municipal Museum. His war photographs were shown for the first time in Prague as late in 1994 (in the Prague Municipal Museum, with an exhibition called Wings of Freedom). Some were in his big retrospective solo exhibition in Prague Castle in 1999.
A representative collection of his war photographs was shown in Pilsen last year in the Great Synagogue; the exhibition covered his war days in France, at the beginning of the war and then at Dunkirk, and in Britain.
Links:
www.morphiro.tumblr.com/post/85108836052/ladislav-sitensky-putovani-na-kole-stn-1963
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Sitensky
www.sitensky.eu/
www.tumblr.com/search/ladislav%20sitensky
www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/czech-world-war-ii-photographer-turns-his-camera-to-the-heavens-for-new-exhibition
www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/wartime-photography-pays-tribute-to-international-cooperation
www.archives.dailytimes.com.pk/national/16-Nov-2009/world-war-ii-photographer-sitensky-dies
www.312.jinak.cz/home/history/sitensky.html
www.dalje.com/en-world/czech-war-photographer-sitensky-dies/281793
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