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Jan Lukas: LID\u00c9 1930 – 1995<\/span><\/p>\n

(18. 8. \u2013 6. 10. 2015)<\/span><\/p>\n

kur\u00e1torka: Nadia Rovderov\u00e1, ve spolupr\u00e1ci s Helenou Lukas<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Artinbox Gallery, Perlov\u00e1 3, Praha 1<\/p>\n

V\u00ddSTAVA JANA LUKASE KON\u010c\u00cd\u00a0 U\u017d 6. 10. 2015. <\/strong><\/p>\n

VZHLEDEM K\u00a0NEUTUCHAJ\u00cdC\u00cdMU Z\u00c1JMU JE V\u00ddSTAVA OTEV\u0158ENA DENN\u011a V\u017dDY OD 14 DO 18 H.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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EXHIBITION OF JAN LUKAS ENDS ON 6th of October.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

EXHIBITION IS OPEN NOW DAILY FROM 2 to 6 p.m..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Vstupn\u00e9 50 K\u010d.<\/p>\n

fotografie z v\u00fdstavy k shl\u00e9dnut\u00ed zde:https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.876872269052129.1073741870.100551130017584&type=3&pnref=story<\/a><\/p>\n

Ud\u00e1lost m\u016f\u017eete sledovat a \u00fa\u010dast potvrdit zde:https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/398756053664246\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Report\u00e1\u017e \u010cT o J. Lukasovi ke shl\u00e9dnut\u00ed zde:\u00a0http:\/\/www.ceskatelevize.cz\/ct24\/kultura\/1562696-zivot-s-fotakem-na-krku-fenomenalni-jan-lukas-oslavil-100-let<\/a><\/p>\n

\u010c\u00e1st \u010dl\u00e1neku o Janu Lukasovi z Respektu 31\/2015 (27. 7.)http:\/\/www.respekt.cz\/spolecnost\/jan-lukas-nedal-na-ameriku-dopustit<\/a><\/p>\n

P\u0159ed sto lety se narodil slavn\u00fd \u010desk\u00fd fotograf Jan Lukas (10. 8. 1915 \u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice \u2013 28. 8. 2006 New York). Byl legenda, jeden z prvn\u00edch tv\u016frc\u016f, zakladatel\u016f \u010desk\u00e9 fotoreport\u00e9rsk\u00e9 tradice a humanitn\u00ed fotografie. V jeho dokument\u00e1rn\u00edch sn\u00edmc\u00edch se odr\u00e1\u017e\u00ed minul\u00e9 stolet\u00ed a lid\u00e9, kte\u0159\u00ed ho tvo\u0159ili, v \u0161\u00ed\u0159i a hloubce, jakou t\u011b\u017eko nalezneme u jin\u00e9ho \u010desk\u00e9ho fotografa. V\u00fdstava \u201eLid\u00e9 1930 \u2013 1995\u201c p\u0159edstavuje dobu, kdy se tvo\u0159ily na\u0161e novodob\u00e9 d\u011bjiny, a to jak v Evrop\u011b, tak i v tehdej\u0161\u00edm Sov\u011btsk\u00e9m svazu \u010di Spojen\u00fdch st\u00e1tech.\u00a0Tyto \u010dernob\u00edl\u00e9 sn\u00edmky p\u016fsob\u00ed st\u00e1le nal\u00e9hav\u011b i dnes, kdy hroz\u00ed, \u017ee op\u011bt zapomeneme a zopakujeme star\u00e9 chyby\u2026<\/p>\n

Reknowned Czech photographer Jan Lukas was born one hundred years ago (August 15, 1915, Ceske Budejovice – August 28, 2006, New York). He was a legend, one of the principle founders of the tradition of Czech photojournalism and humanitarian photography. His documentary images reflect the 20th Century – and the people that formed it – on such a broad scale and to such depth that is hard to trace in the work of any other Czech photo-grapher. The exhibition \u201ePeople 1930 – 1995\u201c presents the era during which our modern history was formed, not only in Europe, but also in the former Soviet Union and the United States. These black and white images maintain their significance to this day, when difficult times insist that we do not forget, lest we repeat our past mistakes…<\/strong><\/p>\n

V\u00fdstava u 100. v\u00fdro\u010d\u00ed narozen\u00ed slavn\u00e9ho \u010desk\u00e9ho fotografa.<\/strong><\/p>\n

JAN LUKAS: LID\u00c9 (1930 – 1995)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201eRealita je natolik zaj\u00edmav\u00e1, \u017ee k n\u00ed u\u017e nic nechci dodat, jen zaznamenat jsem ji v\u017edycky cht\u011bl.\u201c
\nJan Lukas<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lid\u00e9 zn\u00e1m\u00ed i bezejmenn\u00ed. Slavn\u00ed i oby\u010dejn\u00ed\u2026 D\u00edvaj\u00ed se na n\u00e1s ze sn\u00edmk\u016f star\u00fdch dvacet nebo a\u017e p\u011btaosmdes\u00e1t let. Autorem je \u010desk\u00fd fotograf, kter\u00e9mu by letos v srpnu bylo 100 let. \u201eJe dobr\u00e9 \u017e\u00edt d\u00e9le, \u010dlov\u011bk se do\u010dk\u00e1 v\u011bc\u00ed ne\u010dekan\u00fdch. M\u00fdm p\u0159\u00e1n\u00edm je vydr\u017eet je\u0161t\u011b n\u011bkolik let, abych vid\u011bl alespo\u0148 p\u00e1r dn\u00ed t\u0159et\u00edho tis\u00edcilet\u00ed\u2026.\u201c napsal Jan Lukas v roce1995. Tento c\u00edl si splnil – v nov\u00e9m tis\u00edcilet\u00ed pro\u017eil t\u00e9m\u011b\u0159 celou \u201ep\u011btiletku\u201c. Narozen v \u010cesk\u00fdch Bud\u011bjovic\u00edch za vl\u00e1dy Franti\u0161ka Josefa I., um\u0159el v New Yorku v roce 2005 v po\u017eehnan\u00e9m v\u011bku 91 let. Pro\u017eil \u017eivot zaj\u00edmav\u00fd, pln\u00fd zvrat\u016f a p\u0159ekvapen\u00ed.<\/p>\n

Kdy\u017e se do st\u0159edostavovsk\u00e9 rodiny Lukasov\u00fdch v \u010cesk\u00fdch Bud\u011bjovic\u00edch v tehdej\u0161\u00edm Rakousku \u2013 Uhersku narodil syn Jan, Evropu u\u017e rok su\u017eovala 1. sv\u011btov\u00e1 v\u00e1lka. Klukovi byly t\u0159i roky, kdy\u017e v\u00e1lka skon\u010dila. Jeho rodn\u00fd st\u00e1t se rozpadl a Jan se stal ob\u010d\u00e1nkem nov\u011b vznikl\u00e9ho \u010ceskoslovenska. Nastala doba prvn\u00ed republiky, dnes popisov\u00e1na jako doba klidu a pov\u00e1le\u010dn\u00e9ho rozvoje. Prezident T. G. Masaryk a jeho protip\u00f3l Edvard Bene\u0161 vedli st\u00e1t k prosperit\u011b.
\nT\u0159i roky po vzniku \u010ceskoslovenska se rodina Lukasov\u00fdch p\u0159est\u011bhovala z \u010cesk\u00fdch Bud\u011bjovic do Prahy. Kdy\u017e bylo Janu Lukasovi 12 let, dostal od sv\u00e9ho str\u00fdce d\u00e1rek, kter\u00fd ur\u010dil, kam se jeho \u017eivot bude ub\u00edrat \u2013 sv\u016fj prvn\u00ed fotoapar\u00e1t. Pro fotografii se nadchnul, fotil lidi, krajinu, z\u00e1ti\u0161\u00ed\u2026 Jako mlad\u00fd talent vyhr\u00e1l 6. cenu ve fotografick\u00e9 sout\u011b\u017ei firmy Kodak. V roce 1932 byl p\u0159ijat za nejmlad\u0161\u00edho \u010dlena legend\u00e1rn\u00edho Klubu fotograf\u016f amat\u00e9r\u016f na Nek\u00e1zance a ocitl se tak ve spole\u010dnosti fotograf\u016f jako byli: K. H\u00e1jek, V. J\u00edr\u016f, J. Jen\u00ed\u010dek, P. Koblic\u2026. Inspirovala ho tvorba Andr\u00e9 Kert\u00e9sze a Brassa\u00efho, jeho sn\u00edmky se za\u010daly objevovat v prvn\u00edch \u010desk\u00fdch obr\u00e1zkov\u00fdch \u010dasopisech (Eva, Ahoj na ned\u011bli). V letech 1935-36 se stal studentem v\u00edde\u0148sk\u00e9 grafick\u00e9 \u0161koly, spolupracoval s tam\u011bj\u0161\u00edmi \u010dasopisy. V letech 1936-38 z\u00edskal m\u00edsto fotografa a kameramana u firmy Ba\u0165a ve Zl\u00edn\u011b, sezn\u00e1mil se tak s A. Hackenschmiedem, K. Ludwigem, J. Sudkem a dal\u0161\u00edmi. Reklama Silnice zp\u00edv\u00e1, kterou pro firmu Ba\u0165a vytvo\u0159ili spolu s A. Hackenschmiedem, z\u00edskala Zlatou medaili sv\u011btov\u00e9 v\u00fdstav\u011b v Pa\u0159\u00ed\u017ei v r.1937.
\nP\u0159esto ho fotografie l\u00e1kala v\u00edc ne\u017e kamera a jeho fotografick\u00e1 tvorba postupn\u011b z\u00edsk\u00e1vala respekt. Stal se \u010dlenem skupiny Sedm v \u0159\u00edjnu (A. Paderl\u00edk, Z. Seydl, J. Liesler a d.), v \u0159\u00edjnu 1939 spolu vystavovali v legend\u00e1rn\u00edm pra\u017esk\u00e9m Topi\u010dov\u011b sal\u00f3nu.<\/p>\n

Koncem 30. let politick\u00e1 situace postupn\u011b p\u0159est\u00e1v\u00e1 d\u00e1vat podn\u011bty k optimismu. Lukas se rozhodl zaznamen\u00e1vat spole\u010densk\u00e9 d\u011bn\u00ed v ulic\u00edch. Od roku 1938 tak za\u010daly vznikat z\u00e1b\u011bry unik\u00e1tn\u00edho Pra\u017esk\u00e9ho den\u00edku, kter\u00fd se datoval a\u017e do r. 1965, kdy se Jan Lukas vydal do emigrace. Sn\u00edmky zachycuj\u00ed n\u00e1stup dvou totalitn\u00edch re\u017eim\u016f: n\u00e1stup a por\u00e1\u017eku nacizmu a uchopen\u00ed moci komunisty. Na sn\u00edmc\u00edch se mihnou tv\u00e1\u0159e z davu i tv\u016frci t\u011bchto d\u011bjin: T. G. Masaryk, Edward Bene\u0161, Arcibskup Josef Beran, vrchn\u00ed rab\u00edn \u010desk\u00fdch zem\u00ed Dr. Sicher, Jan Masaryk, Gener\u00e1l Dwight D. Eisenhower\u2026 posl\u00e9ze vyst\u0159\u00edd\u00e1ni Klementem Gottwaldem pota\u017emo J. V. Stalinem.<\/p>\n

V letech 1944-45 se k neut\u011b\u0161en\u00e9 politick\u00e9 situaci p\u0159id\u00e1v\u00e1 nemoc – komplikovan\u00fd z\u00e1n\u011bt kostn\u00ed d\u0159en\u011b t\u00e9m\u011b\u0159 p\u0159ipravil 30-let\u00e9ho Jana Lukase o \u017eivot. Tato indispozice rovn\u011b\u017e zabr\u00e1nila vzniku dov\u011btku k slavn\u00e9 fotografii rodinn\u00fdch p\u0159\u00e1tel Vogelov\u00fdch, kter\u00e9 fotil v roce 1942 p\u0159ed transportem do Terez\u00edna. Kdy\u017e se povedlo Vendulce Vogelov\u00e9 a jej\u00ed m\u00e1m\u011b ut\u00e9ct z pochodu smrti a vr\u00e1tily se do Prahy, cht\u011bly se nechat op\u011bt vyfotografovat, ov\u0161em Jan Lukas v t\u00e9 dob\u011b z\u00e1pasil o sv\u016fj \u017eivot v pardubick\u00e9 nemocnici. Nicm\u00e9n\u011b fotografie 12-let\u00e9 Vendulky Vogelov\u00e9 p\u0159ed transportem se stala mo\u017en\u00e1 nejslavn\u011bj\u0161\u00ed Lukasovou fotografi\u00ed a oblet\u011bla sv\u011bt. Na na\u0161\u00ed v\u00fdstav\u011b ji doprov\u00e1z\u00ed i fotografie, kde je Vendulka s rodi\u010di. Tat\u00ednek se u\u017e z transportu nevr\u00e1til.<\/p>\n

V roce 1946 se Jan Lukas o\u017eenil s Milenou Nocarovou. V roce 1947 se jim narodila dcera Jana, v roce 1950 dcera Helena.<\/p>\n

Po komunistick\u00e9m pu\u010di v r. 1948 zanikly obr\u00e1zkov\u00e9 \u010dasopisy, kter\u00e9 d\u00e1valy J. Lukasovi ob\u017eivu, nicm\u00e9n\u011b v r. 1949 se stal \u010dlenem Svazu \u010ds. V\u00fdtvarn\u00fdch um\u011blc\u016f a sm\u011bl tak p\u016fsobit ve svobodn\u00e9m povol\u00e1n\u00ed. Nach\u00e1zel si skuliny v re\u017eimem se\u0161roubovan\u00fdch pom\u011brech a povedlo se mu vydat n\u011bkolik fotografick\u00fdch publikac\u00ed s r\u016fzn\u00fdmi n\u00e1m\u011bty: d\u011bti, barokn\u00ed architektura a socha\u0159stv\u00ed, pra\u017esk\u00e9 \u017eidovsk\u00e9 ghetto\u2026 Nad\u00e1le se v\u011bnoval t\u00e9mat\u016fm lid\u00ed, krajiny, m\u011bsta\u2026
\nV roce 1958 se na sv\u011btov\u00e9 v\u00fdstav\u011b Expo 58 v Bruselu prom\u00edtaly Lukasovy sn\u00edmky v divadle Laterna Magica.
\nV r. 1962 byla v 10-tis\u00edcov\u00e9m n\u00e1kladu vyti\u0161t\u011bna fotografick\u00e1 publikace Moskva. Cel\u00fd n\u00e1klad a\u017e na p\u00e1r exempl\u00e1\u0159\u016f, byl pot\u00e9 kompletn\u011b zlikvidov\u00e1n. P\u0159esto kniha vych\u00e1z\u00ed rok nato anglick\u00e9 verzi pro Spring Books, London.
\nKe sv\u00fdm 50-t\u00fdm narozenin\u00e1m si Jan Lukas nad\u011blil \u00fasp\u011b\u0161n\u00fd, i kdy\u017e dramatick\u00fd \u00fat\u011bk s rodinou za svobodou. Jeden\u00e1ct m\u011bs\u00edc\u016f str\u00e1vily v italsk\u00e9m uprchlick\u00e9m t\u00e1bo\u0159e, kde vznikl pozoruhodn\u00fd fotografick\u00fd dokument. V t\u00e9 dob\u011b bylo v jeho pra\u017esk\u00e9m byt\u011b ukradeno a zni\u010deno na 200 000 negativ\u016f. Na\u0161t\u011bst\u00ed ty nejcenn\u011bj\u0161\u00ed se mu za pomoci p\u0159\u00e1tel povedlo zachr\u00e1nit.
\nV roce 1966 za\u010d\u00edn\u00e1 Jan Lukas nov\u00fd svobodn\u00fd \u017eivot ve vysn\u011bn\u00e9m New Yorku. V r. 1971 z\u00edsk\u00e1v\u00e1 americk\u00e9 ob\u010danstv\u00ed.
\nNa Manhattanu, nejlep\u0161\u00edm nov\u00e9m domov\u011b, jak\u00fd si mohl vysn\u00edt, potkal star\u00e9 i nov\u00e9 p\u0159\u00e1tele: A. Hackenschmieda, A. Kert\u00e9sze, J. Voskovce, M. Formana, V. Havla… Fotografoval d\u00e1l, pracoval hlavn\u011b pro National Review (p\u0159es 100 tituln\u00edch str\u00e1nek) ale i pro dal\u0161\u00ed periodika. Fotografoval prezidenty Kennedyho, Nixona, Reagana a dal\u0161\u00ed politick\u00e9 a kulturn\u00ed osobnosti\u2026 Paraleln\u011b pokra\u010doval v pr\u00e1ci na fotografick\u00fdch cyklech: Ostrovan\u00e9, Amerika podle Kafky, Pompeje \/ Manhattan\u2026
\nV porevolu\u010dn\u00edm roce 1990 se Jan Lukas op\u011bt pod\u00edval do Prahy. Nov\u011b vznikl\u00e1 Asociace fotograf\u016f \u010cesk\u00e9 republiky mu ud\u011bluje \u010destn\u00e9 ob\u010danstv\u00ed. V tomt\u00e9\u017e roce op\u011bt fotografuje V\u00e1clava Havla, tentokr\u00e1t jeho n\u00e1v\u0161t\u011bvu v B\u00edl\u00e9m dom\u011b a slavn\u00fd projev v Kongresu Spojen\u00fdch st\u00e1t\u016f. Z roku 1995 poch\u00e1z\u00ed Lukasova posledn\u00ed fotografie V\u00e1clava Havla \u2013 tentokr\u00e1t na pra\u017esk\u00e9m Hrad\u011b.<\/p>\n

A zde se kruh uzav\u00edr\u00e1.<\/p>\n

Nev\u00eddan\u00e1 soustavnost, zv\u011bdavost, talent a pracovitost pomohly Janu Lukasovi vytvo\u0159it pozoruhodn\u00e9 d\u00edlo. Je z n\u011bho patrn\u00e1 empatie a laskavost. Na tu dobu neobvykle a pr\u016fkopnicky vyu\u017eil expresivity, pohybu, jen\u017e dod\u00e1v\u00e1 \u017eivot a dynamiku sn\u00edmk\u016fm popisuj\u00edc\u00edm d\u011bjinn\u00e9 ud\u00e1losti, kter\u00e9 vytvo\u0159ily dne\u0161ek\u2026 Je dobr\u00e9 se nad smyslem t\u011bchto sn\u00edmk\u016f zamyslet i v dne\u0161n\u00ed dob\u011b, kdy jsou op\u011bt aktu\u00e1ln\u00ed slova: anexe, v\u00e1lka, uprchl\u00edci\u2026 I proto jsme se p\u0159i p\u0159\u00edle\u017eitosti 100. v\u00fdro\u010d\u00ed narozen\u00ed autora rozhodli zap\u00e1trat v archivu a vyhledat sn\u00edmky, kde se na postav\u00e1ch a obli\u010dej\u00edch lid\u00ed zra\u010d\u00ed i na\u0161e doba.<\/p>\n

Nadia Rovderov\u00e1, Praha, srpen \/ august 2015<\/p>\n

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Jan Lukas: People 1930\u20131995<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Renowned Czech photographer Jan Lukas was born one hundred years ago (August 15, 1915, \u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice \u2013 August 28, 2006, New York). He was a legend, one of the principle founders of Czech photojournalism and of humanistic photography. His documentary images reflect the 20th<\/sup> century \u2013 and the people that formed it \u2013 on such a broad scale and to such depth that is hard to trace in the work of any other Czech photographer.
\nThe exhibition \u201cPeople 1930\u20131995\u201d presents the era during which our modern history was formed, not only in Europe, but also in the Soviet Union and in the United States. These black and white images maintain their significance to this day and insist we do not forget, lest we repeat our past mistakes\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cReality is so interesting that I want to add nothing to it; I just always wanted to record it.\u201d
\nJan Lukas<\/em><\/p>\n

People both known and nameless. Famous and ordinary… They look at us from pictures that are twenty or even eighty-five years old. The author is a Czech photographer who would have been 100 years old in August of this year. \u201cIt is good to live longer, one sees unexpected things. My wish is to last several more years to see at least a few days of the third millennium…,\u201d wrote Jan Lukas in 1995. This dream came true \u2013 in the new millennium he lived for almost five years. Born in \u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice during the reign of Franz Joseph I, he died in New York in 2005 at the ripe age of 91. He lived an interesting life, full of turns and surprises.<\/p>\n

When Jan was born into the Lukas middle-class family in \u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Europe had been already plagued by the First World War for one year. The boy was three years old when the war ended. His native country broke up, and Jan became a citizen of the newly formed Czechoslovakia. This was a period of the First Republic, today described as a time of peace and post-war development. President T.G. Masaryk and his counterpart Edvard Bene\u0161 led the country to prosperity.
\nThree years after the founding of Czechoslovakia, the Lukas family moved from \u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice to Prague. When Jan Lukas was 12 years old, his uncle gave him a gift which determined where his life would lead \u2013 his first photo camera. He got enthusiastic for photography; he photographed people, landscapes, or still lifes. As a young talent he won sixth prize in a Kodak photographic competition. In 1932, he was accepted as the youngest member of the legendary Club of Amateur Photographers in Nek\u00e1zanka and found himself in the company of such photographers as K. H\u00e1jek, V. J\u00edr\u016f, J. Hansel, P. Koblic, and others. He was inspired by the works of Andr\u00e9 Kert\u00e9sz and Brassa\u00ef; his photos began to appear in the first Czech illustrated magazines (Eva, Ahoj na ned\u011bli). In the years 1935\u20131936, he became a student of the Vienna School of Graphics and he collaborated with the local magazines. In 1936\u201338, he was appointed photographer and cameraman at the Ba\u0165a company in Zl\u00edn. Thus he got acquainted with A. Hackenschmied, K. Ludwig, J. Sudek, and others. The advertisement Silnice zp\u00edv\u00e1 (Road Sings), which he created for Ba\u0165a along with A. Hackenschmied, won the Gold Medal at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937.
\nYet, he was attracted more by photography than by cinematography, and his photographic work gradually gained respect. He became a member of the art group Sedm v \u0159\u00edjnu (A. Paderl\u00edk, Z. Seydl, J. Liesler, and others); in October 1939, they exhibited together at the legendary Topi\u010d\u016fv salon in Prague.<\/p>\n

By the end of the 1930\u2019s, the political situation would gradually cease to give incentives for optimism. Lukas decided to record social events in the streets. From 1938 thus began to emerge unique footage of Pra\u017esk\u00fd den\u00edk, which was issued until 1965, when Jan Lukas went into exile. The pictures capture the emergence of two totalitarian regimes: the onset and defeat of Nazism and the seizure of power by the communists. In the images flash the faces in the crowd as well as the creators of this history: T.G. Masaryk, Edvard Bene\u0161, Archbishop Josef Beran, Chief Rabbi of the Czech Lands Dr. Sicher, Jan Masaryk, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and so on, later replaced by Klement Gottwald and J.V. Stalin, respectively.<\/p>\n

Between 1944 and 1945, with the dismal political situation strikes in a disease \u2013 a complicated inflammation of the bone marrow almost took Jan Lukas, who was 30 years old then, his life. This ailment also prevented the making of a postscript to the famous photo of the family friends, the Vogels, who he photographed in 1942 before their transport to Terez\u00edn. When Vendulka Vogel and her mother managed to escape from the death march and returned to Prague, they wanted to have themselves photographed again, but at that time Jan Lukas was struggling for his life in the hospital in Pardubice. However, the photograph of the 12-year-old Vendulka Vogel before the transport became perhaps the most famous Lukas\u2019s photograph and it went all around the world. At our exhibition it is accompanied by a photograph where Vendulka is with her parents. Sadly, her father never returned from the transport.<\/p>\n

In 1946, Jan Lukas married Milena Nocarov\u00e1. In 1947, their daughter Jana was born, in 1950, daughter Helena.<\/p>\n

After the communist coup in 1948, the picture magazines that were Lukas\u2019s source of income disappeared. However, in 1949 he became a member of the Union of Czechoslovak Artists and thus he was allowed to work freelance. Has would find loopholes in the situation tied up by the regime and he was able to publish several photographic books with various themes: children, Baroque architecture and sculpture, Prague\u2019s Jewish ghetto, and others. He continued to be dedicated to the themes of people, landscape, and the city.
\nIn 1958 at the World Expo 58 in Brussels, Lukas\u2019s photos were projected at the theatre Laterna Magica.
\nIn 1962, the photographic book Moscow was published in 10 thousand copies. After that, the whole impression except a few copies was completely destroyed. Despite that, the book comes out a year later in an English edition for Spring Books, London.
\nFor his 50th<\/sup> birthday Jan Lukas gave himself a present in the form of a successful, although dramatic escape with his family to freedom. They spent eleven months in an Italian refugee camp, where a remarkable photographic documentary emerged. At that time, in his Prague flat almost 200 000 negatives were stolen and destroyed. Fortunately, he managed to save those most valuable with the help of his friends.
\nIn 1966, Jan Lukas begins a new, free life in the dreamt-of New York. In 1971, he obtains American citizenship.
\nIn Manhattan, the best new home that he could possibly dream of, he met both old and new friends: A. Hackenschmied, A. Kert\u00e9sz, J. Voskovec, M. Forman, V. Havel, and others. He continued to take photographs; he worked mainly for the National Review (over 100 front pages), but also for other periodicals. He photographed presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, and other political and cultural figures. In parallel, he continued to work on photographic series, such as Islanders, America after Kafka, or Pompeii \/ Manhattan.
\nIn the post-revolutionary year 1990, Jan Lukas went back to see Prague again. The newly formed Association of Photographers of the Czech Republic awarded him honorary membership. In the same year, he photographs V\u00e1clav Havel again; this time his visit to the White House and the famous speech in the U.S. Congress. The last Lukas\u2019s photograph of V\u00e1clav Havel dates to 1995 \u2013 this time at Prague Castle.<\/p>\n

And here the circle closes.<\/p>\n

Unprecedented continuity, curiosity, talent, and hard work helped Jan Lukas create remarkable work. It shows evident empathy and kindness. For that time, he unusually and in a pioneering way used expressiveness of movement, which gives life and dynamics to the pictures describing historical events that gave birth to the present day… It is good to contemplate the meaning of these images even today, when the words like annexation, war, or refugees are topical again. This is also why we on the occasion of the 100th<\/sup> anniversary of the birth of the author decided to search the archives and look for photographs where the characters and the faces of the people mirror even our time.<\/p>\n

Nadia Rovderov\u00e1, Prague, August 2015<\/p>\n

Artinbox Gallery, Perlov\u00e1 370\/3, 110 00 Praha 1 \u2013 Star\u00e9 m\u011bsto, tel.: +420 777 748 433, nadia@artinbox.cz,\u00a0www.artinbox.cz<\/a><\/p>\n

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