Jarom?r Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde - a podcast by National Gallery of Art, Washington

June 2009, Backstory - Matthew Witkovsky, chair and curator, department of photography, the Art Institute of Chicago. Jarom?r Funke, a leading figure in Czech and Slovak photography between the world wars, blazed a path with his compatriots?a group of committed amateurs?toward photography as a modern form of art. In this podcast, produced on the occasion of the Gallery exhibition Jarom?r Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde, Witkovsky talks to host Barbara Tempchin about the Czech photographer's influential role in this movement.

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