Historical photography Šechtl & Voseček

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Welcome to our home page, dedicated primarily to photographs by the Šechtl family whose tradition exceeds 150 years. You can find here information about Šechtl & Voseček Museum of Photography, on-line presentation of past exhibitions from our archive as well as other digitized collections of historical photography, virtual galleries of photographs and regularly updated digital archive.

Recent additions to Š&V Bookshelf

monograph Marie Šechtlová: Photography 1960-1970

Šechtl & Voseček: A History of the Studio

South Bohemia Exhibition in Tábor, - Professor Theodor Petřík and Tábor

Digitizing archive

In our project of digitization archive we strive to make profesional quality digital copies of all preserved photographs and make them available in preview quality in our digital archive. Information about individual photos in the archive is often incomplete or unreadable. We welcome any help with identifying details! We can also make quality digital prints from the photographs and make them available for furhter publication upon request.

My heart I gave to a Czech,
My husband loves his country,
And I will raise my children
As strong sons of the homeland.

— Božena Němcová: My Country

Šechtl & Voseček Museum of Photography in Tábor, Museum of Czech Literature in Prague, and Božena Němcová Museum in Česká Skalice would like to invite you to this exhibition, commemorating the 130th anniversary of the death of Josef Němec.

“The children are my greatest concern.”

The lives of descendants of writer Božena Němcová, in their own words, and in photographs from the studios of Šechtl & Voseček, and others.

The exhibition was be opened by its curator, Yvetta Dorflová.
Open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm.
Exhibition will run until 31 March 2010.

Šechtl & Voseček Museum of Photography, U Lípy House,
Mikuláše z Husi Square, Filipovská 72, Tábor, Czech Republic.

Most Interesting Discoveries

Section, where we show the most interesting information we have received from you, about photographs in the archive.

Current | Archive

: In the archives of Czechoslovak church in Tábor was found several new negatives originating from Šechtl & Voseček studios. The negatives was donated to our archive. We are very grateful for the gift.
: Jiří Kroupa, son of Adolf Kroupa, director of organizing committee of great Regional exhibition in 1929, identified number of photographs and borrowed us for digitization photographs not preserved in our archive. With 311 photographs, the reportage from the exhibition is the largest made by Šechtl and Voseček.
: Mr. Poustka donated to our archive 3 boxes of negatives he saved from larger amount of boxes thrown away from garage in Budějovická street. The negatives are originated from Šechtl and Voseček studios and we hope that perhaps more of negatives was saved from this previously unknown storage. The negatives will be digitized soon.