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Press Event: Jaromír Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde

The first major exhibition of photographer Jaromír Funke's work outside of Europe in nearly 25 years will be on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from May 3 through August 9, 2009. Some 70 works in 'Jaromír Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde' will reveal his influential role in the Czech and Slovak amateur photography movement in the 1920s and 1930s and will include works by Josef Sudek (1896–1976), one of the best-known Czech photographers worldwide, and Eugen Wi kovsk (1888–1964).

04/28/09