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Viktor Kolar: Canada, 1968-1973

Viktor Kolar: Canada, 1968-1973

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Born in 1941 and raised in Ostrava, Kolář fled to Austria soon after the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Shortly after relocating, he discovered that Canada was seeking “young and healthy people” to immigrate, so he and a friend accepted plane tickets to Vancouver. Living in a cheap Chinatown hotel, they attended a six-month English language course and Kolář…
Visions of Viktor Kolář. Czech Photo

Visions of Viktor Kolář. Czech Photo

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The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography along with the Czech center in Moscow are pleased to present an exhibition of Viktor Kolář – one of the most important Czech photographers of the second half of the 20th century. The exhibition includes around 60 silver gelatin prints from his Ostrava and Canada series. Viktor Kolář was born in 1941 in Ostrava.…