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Markéta Luskačová

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20: 100:" in Czechoslovakia, left the country and Luskačová asked the state authorities for permission to visit her husband abroad. After several short visits she received a form for emigration (1975) and went to live in England. However, in an interview she claimed: "Bohemia, Prague and Šumiac have never ceased to be my home. I always took my life abroad as a kind of stopgap that stretched to be a considerable part of my life." 165: 61:
there with a thesis on religion in Slovakia. During her stay in Slovakia, she became familiar with the old Christian rites and decided to return with a camera to document the surviving traditions. Her thesis was titled
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In the 1970s and 1980s, the communist censorship attempted to conceal her international reputation. Her works were banned in Czechoslovakia, and the catalogues for the exhibition
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In 2016 she self-published a collection of photographs of street musicians, mostly taken in the markets of east London, under the title
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London: Whitechapel Gallery, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. With 72 pages, 32 plates, and a preface by Catherine Lampert and texts by
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and elsewhere. Considered one of the best Czech social photographers to date, since the 1990s she has photographed children in the
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The Third Side of the Wall: Photography in Czechoslovakia 1969–1988 from the Collection of the Moravian Gallery in Brno.
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No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1967–1987: From the British Council and the Arts Council Collection.
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O smrti, o koních a jiných lidech / On Death and Horses and Other People: Maškary–Masks: 1999–2010: Roztoky–Únětice.
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In 1971, Luskačová married the poet Franz H. Wurm (native of Prague and a British citizen). Wurm, terrified by the "
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Markéta Luskačová's Chiswick Women's Aid 1976–77 is finally brought to light after 44 years
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Catalogue of an exhibition, with short texts by Howard Bossen and Robert Silverio.
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had a son, Matthew. The photographs remained unpublished until 2020.
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From 1970 to 1972, Luskačová photographed stage performances of the
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Markéta Luskačová: Fotografie ze Spitalfields (Londýn 1974–1990).
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for the exhibition, British Council. Accessed 15 February 2009.
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The Photogeny of Identity – The Memory of Czech Photography,
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No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1968–1987.
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in the 1970s. Shortly afterwards, she and the photographer
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By the Sea: Photographs from the North East, 1976–1980.
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Unknown Remembered: Photographs of Children, 1968-98.
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In 1968 she graduated from 888:Czech expatriates in England 230:Fotografická galerie Fiducia 218:Photographs of Spitalfields. 194:(with Isabella Jedrzejczyk, 174:Photographs from the Beaches 152:and with an introduction by 64:Poutě na Východním Slovensku 280:, London, January–May 2019. 929: 903:20th-century photographers 442:Zines of work by Luskačová 290:Books of work by Luskačová 262:(Jindřichův Hradec), 2008. 109:Victoria and Albert Museum 898:Charles University alumni 883:Czech women photographers 878:Photographers from Prague 854:at World Webphoto Gallery 695:No Such Thing as Society, 682:The Photogeny of Identity 665:No Such Thing as Society, 509:Café Royal's description 493:Café Royal's description 269:Moravian Gallery in Brno 306:. 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Britain
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Poland
Prague
Charles University
FAMU
Otomar Krejča
Roudnice nad Labem
Anna Fárová
Normalization
Victoria and Albert Museum
London
Portobello Road
Brixton
Spitalfields
Magnum Photos
Chiswick Women's Aid
Chris Killip
John Berger

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
Side Gallery
Newcastle
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
Graham Smith
Whitechapel Art Gallery
Fotografická galerie Fiducia
Ostrava

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