Šechtl & Voseček Museum of Photography

Address:

Šechtl & Voseček Museum of Photography
U Lípy House (map)
Náměstí Mikuláše z Husi (“Nicholas of Husi Square”)
Filipovská 72
Tábor (map)
Czech Republic (map)

Open:

open Monday – Friday, 10am–5pm
Entrance through confectioner's store/coffee bar.
Closed on all Saturdays.

Current exhibition

You are cordially invited to our exhibition at Šechtl & Voseček Museum of Photography:

Disappeared Tábor

Opening day: 27 July 2010 at 5pm.
Open Monday-Friday 10am–5pm.
Exhibition will run until 31 October 2010.

These photographs from the Šechtl & Voseček studio present the lost face of Tabor town. They introduce you to times when only a narrow gate led to the town; to market squares where you could buy cabbages or cattle; to where Lužnice river raftsmen called the tanners "Blue Bellies"; and to where construction and demolition went hand in hand. The exhibition is a selection from the book-in-preparation, "Disappeared Tábor" (one of the "Disappeared Towns"series from Paseka publishing), and from the 2011 calendar of Šechtl & Voseček Museum of Photography.

We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the South Bohemia Region.

Travelling exhibition

Marie Šechtlová

You are cordially invited to exhibition at Leica Gallery Prague:

Marie Šechtlová: Photography 1960-1970

Opening day September 9th 2010, 7pm.
Curator of the exhibition: Josef Moucha
The exhibition can be viewed, until 28th october 2010.

Marie Šechtlova, nee Kokešova (1928–2008) began her photographic career in 1945. After her marriage to Josef Šechtl, she helped develop the family Šechtl & Voseček photographic studio until 1953, when it was nationalized by the communist government. In the late 1950s, she became an art photographer, and in the 1960s, she was one of most successful photographers of "the poetry of the everyday". Together with her husband, she published a number of books, and produced many exhibitions, and also pioneered the use of large scale photographic prints for interior decoration.

From the opening day:

Exhibition was opened by Eva Hubičková, curator of exhibition	Petra Kratochvílová was singing in accompany of Jaroslav Bárta
In the ground floor you find photographs of places that disappeared completely	In the basement you find photographs of places that was significandly changed

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About us:

Three generations of the Šechtl family have been photographically recording life in Tábor for the past 140 years. Over thirteen thousand glass plate negatives have been preserved, from the years 1864 to 1940. These plates document the changes in Tábor as well as many interesting people including Emperor Franz Josef, presidents T. G. Masaryk and E. Beneš, sculptor František Bílek, inventor František Křižík and musicians Oskar Nedbal, Josef Suk and Bohuslav Foerster.