Pavel Vančát: Photographer Jan Svoboda (hiking talk)
A Sunday hiking talk by Pavel Vančát on the photographic work of Jan Svoboda (1934–1990) — a native of Bohuňovice who built in an original way on the work of Josef Sudek — at the cinema in Bohuňovice. The talk was held in collaboration with the Olomouc Museum of Art as part of the accompanying program for the exhibition of its photography collection, Civilizované iluze (Civilized Illusions). The speaker is the author of a monograph on Jan Svoboda.
About the author
Pavel Vančát (b. 1976, Ústí nad Labem) is a Czech photography historian and curator. He studied at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University and at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. In 2002 he was among the founders of Fotograf magazine and served on its editorial board for many years. He focuses on Czech photography and visual culture of the second half of the 20th century and on contemporary art photography. He has curated numerous exhibitions of Czech photographers and translated Susan Sontag’s On Photography into Czech.