Press Event: Jarom??r Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde

Description

The first major exhibition of photographer Jarom??r 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 ‘Jarom??r 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).