Autochromes by Ferdinand Bučina

Ferdinand Bučina (1909 – 1994, Prague) at the beginning of his artistic activity used color photography only rarely. Still, 18 interesting Autochromes have been preserved. Mostly they show rural folklore from Moravian Slovakia, where he came in 1937 as a reporter and cameraman for a Czechoslovak periodical. Other pictures, from a journey to Carpato-Ukraine in the summer of 1936, which Bučina had sent by post to the periodical “Ahoj”, have not been preserved.

F. and V. Sichrovský

Ferdinand Bučina (1909–1994)

Lumicolor 6×9 cm, 1937

Owner of the original autochrome: Private collection of Tomáš Rasl All rights reserved, use of the digital reproduction is possible only with written permission from the owner of photograph

Moravian Slovakia: St. Antony

Ferdinand Bučina (1909–1994)

Lumicolor 6×9 cm, 1937

Owner of the original autochrome: Private collection of Tomáš Rasl All rights reserved, use of the digital reproduction is possible only with written permission from the owner of photograph

V. Bučinová at Karlštejn castle near Prague

Ferdinand Bučina (1909–1994)

Lumicolor 6×9 cm, June 1937

Owner of the original autochrome: Private collection of Tomáš Rasl All rights reserved, use of the digital reproduction is possible only with written permission from the owner of photograph

Karlštejn Castle near Prague

Ferdinand Bučina (1909–1994)

Lumicolor 6×9 cm, 1937

Owner of the original autochrome: Private collection of Tomáš Rasl All rights reserved, use of the digital reproduction is possible only with written permission from the owner of photograph