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Nov 24 2011

New exhibition of photographs of Tábor from 1960s to 1970s was opened as part of conference “Year 2011 - 50 years of renovating of Tábor cultural heritage”.

Nov 15 2011

Šechtl and Voseček Museum of Photography will be closed during the winter. You are however welcome to see the exhibition (in somewhat reduced form) at the restaurant Střelnice.

Nov 2 2011

Our museum will be closed till February

Oct 15 2011

As part of even “Days of open studios” we will also open our museum during weekend. At Saturday October 22 you can visit studios of Marie Šechtlová at Bezručova street. At Sunday 23th exposition of our museum.

Oct 14 2011

Photographs from our archive can be seen as part of exhibition commemoriating 70th anniversary of death of sculptor František Bílek in Chýnov.

Oct 9 2011

We was pleased that our guided tours was met with an interest. We will continue organizing them in the future.

Oct 7 2011

Equpiment of our museum was extended by scanner Eversmart Select refurbished by Foreversmarts. We plan to use this canner to scan the largest negatives in our collection, since it allows scanning transparent originals up to size of A3. Also the high resolution 5600DPI and large density will let us digitize the 1960s to 1990s photographs made on 9x12 flat films.

Sep 25 2011

You are invited to guided tour through our exhibition at first and second Sunday of October, starting at 3pm

Sep 14 2011

278 new photographs.

: In Saint Peterburg

: Bus stop

: Paříž

New year cards, Water and Clouds, In hospital, Series, Skool trip, Swiming at Jordán and river, Libeň gasometer, Národní třída street, Vítkov, Modrá Hvězda, Beautiful women on 6x6cm negatives, Miss Ančrlová, Miss Šoková, Chmelik (editor)

Sep 5 2011

New exhibition “Ignác Šechtl 1840–1911: Remarkable Movie Crank with a Camera” was opened at Šechtl and Voseček Museum of Photography. We are very grateful to everyone who came to the opening despite the extremely bad weather.

Aug 29 2011

Photographs from our callendar “Tábor” for year 2010 are now available in on-line gallery

Jun 29 2011

121 new photographs.

: On the yard of Šechtl's studio

: In hospital

Water and Clouds, In hospital, Series, Národní třída street

Jun 24 2011

525 new photographs.

: Fezko textille factory

: Edy vote Kennedy 1964

: Prague at Night

: Prague, riverside

Daisy, Nekola Art school 1962 Art school Vinohrady Planting Potatoes Antonín Švehla during occupation; before it was destroyed People at Night Yard Nový svět Textile factory Fezko Chmelik (editor) Jean Effel

Jun 22 2011

At the Great synagogue in Plsen was opened our largest exhibition to date.

May 29 2011

We celebrate 6000 scans of the sheet film photographs.

390 new photographs.

: Bicycle

: Prague

Photographs from unidentified exhibition of Marie Šechtlová, Glass makers, Foresters, Horní Planá, Horní Planá Kindergarden, Lidická and Roudenská, not published, Mácha lake, Exhibitions of Marie Šechtlová, Exhibition of Marie Šechtlová in Tábor, 1961, Novák family from Rokycany, Donate Blood

Apr 8 2011

132 new photographs, include three newly discovered 35mm films by Josef Jindřich Šechtl..

: Market at main square in Tábor

: Memorial of Josef Němec by sculptor J. V. Dušek, 1933

: Mirroring (series by M. Šechtlová)

: Spooks (series by M. Šechtlová]

Mirroring (series by M. Šechtlová), Spooks (series by M. Šechtlová), Josef Němec Memorial, 1933, 35mm film, Autocamping Veselí, Bílá labuť (shopping moll)

Apr 6 2011

51 new photographs.

: Probably taken at trip to Britanny, 1965

: Rolled piece of paper photographed using multiplying filter and with color light

Photographs for book Svět loutek (world of puppets), Cheb, monastery Teplá, Loket, Canoeing

Mar 30 2011

Opening of the exhibition “American Colony in Jerusalem and the Matson Photo Service” was successful. We would like to thank to everyone who came to the opening, to Andrew Goodall and Zbyňek Suchomel for talks, Swing band for music and to Škrla family for renovating the exhibition rooms and extending museum by one extra room.

Mar 15 2011

59 new photographs.

: 59, sandwitch of Agfacolor diapositive and black and white film

: Street, taken on negative Agfacolor T

: Forest

Photographs for book Svět loutek (world of puppets)

We now digitize color photographs from 1960s to 1990s. Sadly even those recent pictures often show significant aging. We consider option of freezing the onprocessed part of negatives.

Mar 9 2011