The tragic career of Jaroslav Balzar - Galleries - Night & Day - The Prague Post. There was a great heyday for portrait photography in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s and '30s.
Unfortunately after World War II the communist government looked on the art form and the artists as too middle class. Whole archives of photos vanished, leaving just a few fragments to judge people by. Jaroslav Balzar, born in 1894, was one such photographer, and small sampling of his surviving work is now on display at Galerie Josefa Sudka. He began his work in Prague in 1922 and eventually settled into an exclusive studio on Jungmannovo náměsti, where he made friends with and photographed top film, theater and sports stars of the era.
Records show that he also dabbled a bit in acting and was a member of the Prague Magic Club, which put on shows of prestidigitation. Unusual for his era, he also shot nudes, two of which are on display for the first time. Jaroslav Balzar Photographs When: To Jan. 12, 2014; Wed. He also did a bit of experimentation. Tina Modotti. Early life[edit] Modotti was born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini in Udine, Friuli, Italy.[1] In 1913, at the age of 16, she immigrated to the United States to join her father in San Francisco, California.[1] Acting career[edit] Tina Modotti in the film The Tiger's Coat (1920) Attracted to the performing arts supported by the Italian émigré community in the San Francisco Bay Area, Modotti experimented with acting.
She appeared in several plays, operas, and silent movies in the late 1910s and early 1920s, and also worked as an artist's model.[2] In 1918, she entered into a relationship with Roubaix "Robo" de l'Abrie Richey. The couple entered into a bohemian circle of friends. Photographic career[edit] Guy Bourdin. Guy Louis Bourdin (December 2, 1928 in Paris – March 29, 1991 in Paris), born Guy Louis Banarès, was a French fashion photographer.
Life and career[edit] Guy Louis Banarès was born December 2, 1928, at 7 Rue Popincourt, Paris.[1] He was abandoned by his mother the following year,[2] and was adopted by Maurice Désiré Bourdin, who brought him up with the help of his mother Marguerite Legay.[3] During his military service in Dakar (1948–1949), he received his first photography training as a cadet in the French Air Force.[1]
Vivian Maier. Personal life[edit] Many details of Maier's life remain unknown.
She was born in New York City, the daughter of a French mother, Maria Jaussaud Justin, and an Austrian father, Charles Maier (also known as Wilhelm). Several times during her childhood she moved between the U.S. and France, living with her mother in the Alpine village of Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur near her mother's relations. Her father seems to have left the family temporarily for unknown reasons by 1930. In the 1930 census, the head of the household was listed as Jeanne Bertrand, a successful photographer who knew Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art.[7][8] In 1935, Vivian and her mother were living in Saint-Julien-en-Champsaur and before 1940 returned to New York. John Maloof, curator of some of Maier's photographs, summarized the way the children she nannied would later describe her: "She was a Socialist, a Feminist, a movie critic, and a tell-it-like-it-is type of person. Francesca Woodman. Front of dust jacket of 2011 book Francesca Woodman; photograph is detail from "Polka Dots" §Life (history)[edit] Francesca Woodman was born on April 3, 1958, in Boulder, Colorado, to artists George Woodman and Betty Woodman (Abrahams).[3][6] Her older brother Charles later became an associate professor of electronic art.[7] Her mother is Jewish and her father is from a Protestant background.[8] Woodman attended public school in Boulder, Colorado, between 1963 and 1971 except for second grade, which she attended in Italy.
She began high school in 1972 at the private Massachusetts boarding school Abbot Academy, where she began to develop her photographic skills and became interested in the art form. Abbot Academy merged with Phillips Academy in 1973; Woodman graduated from the public Boulder High School in 1975.