81PavelBaňka* 1941Courtship in the underground studio, 1990
Courtship in the underground studio, 1990
Description of the period of creation in words
1990
Dimensions
Short item description
black and white photograph from Polaroid negative 10x12,5 cm, edition 2/6,
archival digital print, forex adjustment, framed, 110 x 144 cm
Pavel Baňka was born in 1941 in Prague and has several creative ""lives"" that have been intertwined for decades. As a photographer, teacher and mentor in the Czech Republic, the United States and the United Kingdom, he has influenced
generations of artists. He is also known as the founder of several important
institutions that are still operating on a global scale today, without him.
Prague House of Photography (now the House of Photography within the GHMP Prague), the international magazine Fotograf (now Fotograf Magazine) published from the beginning in two versions, Czech and English and distributed to more than thirty countries around the world. His works are in many collections, including: Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium; George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, USA; Art Institute of Chicago, USA; Paris Audio Visual, France. His photographs have been exhibited in galleries, art museums and at
festivals around the world. Pavel Baňka was born in 1941 in Prague and has had several creative "lives" that have intertwined over the decades. As a photographer and as a teacher and mentor in the Czech Republic, the United States and the United Kingdom, he has influenced generations of artists. He is also known as the founder of several important activities which are still ongoing today, even without him now, on a global scale. These were the Prague House of Photography (now the House of Photography within the GHMP Prague), and the international magazine Fotograf (now Fotograf Magazine), published from the beginning in
two versions, Czech and English, and distributed to more than thirty countries around the world.
His works can be found in many collections, including. Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium; George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, USA; Art Institute of Chicago, USA; Paris Audio Visual, France. His photographs have been exhibited in galleries, art museums and festivals around the world.
