Jiří Hanke: Photographs 1973–2018
Jiří Hanke: Photographs 1973–2018
Jiří Hanke: Photographs 1973–2018
Jiří Hanke: Photographs 1973–2018
Jiří Hanke: Photographs 1973–2018
Jiří Hanke: Photographs 1973–2018
Jiří Hanke: Photographs 1973–2018

Jiří Hanke: Photographs 1973–2018

Documentarian Jiří Hanke (born 1944) deals in long-term, socially focused projects. His photographs have been inspired by his native town of Kladno. His oldest closed photographic series is entitled People from Podprůhon 1974–1989 (published in book form in 1995).

The historical value of documenting the lifestyle of a vanishing working-class colony was obvious even at the time Hanke first began doing it. The historically grounded testimonies of human existence represent a general statement reaching beyond the borders of any given region. Hanke’s key series, Views from the Window of My Flat, consists of snapshots taken from 10 September 1981 to 10 January 2003 (published in book form in 1994 and 2013). An old double-portrait of Hanke with his father, whose photographic talent he inherited, led him to the series The Echoes of a Generation (1998). Since 1986, Hanke has been adding to it with other diptychs or more comprehensive series of portraits of parents and children. A cross-section of his extensive oeuvre, prepared on the occasion of Hanke’s 75th birthday, also includes another series featuring classic black-and-white images: Paris Fragments, TV Image, Echoes and Periphery.

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