Exhibition opening: Negatives from the Dumpster 1900-1945

In the organizer's words:

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Negatives from the Dumpster 1900-1945

Through photographs taken from his collection of negatives, Martin Wagner optically traces nearly five decades of the 20th century. He doesn't look back at world-famous events. Instead, he projects onto the pages of his book a part of history doomed to oblivion. His contribution to the knowledge of the Central European past - and thus European culture in general - is forged from what remains of people who have not lived to see their personal records revived. Although the reproduced photographs were generally not intended for the public, this book transforms them into a transpersonal legacy.

-Josef Moucha, Illuminations of a vanished world

About Martin Wagner (1980)

Martin Wagner is a documentary photographer. He was born and lives in Prague. In 2013, he graduated with a master's degree from the Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University, in Opava. For many years, he photographed in the countries of the former Soviet Union. He published these works in Siberia (2019). Together with Karel Cudlín and Jan Dobrovský, colleagues from the association of photographers 400 ASA, he published his works in Lost Europe (2020), which focused on Ukraine. He has presented his works in many solo and group exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad. For three years, he ran his own photography gallery at the Chapel of St. Jan Nepomuk in downtown Prague (2003-2006). His wife, Světlana, is from Siberia, and their son Václav was born in 2013. For the past three decades, he has been collecting negatives, the authors of which are rarely identified. He developed technical procedures for negative digitizing, and since 2023, together with Tomáš Mandys, he has been developing a device for the rapid digitization of 35mm negatives. He runs a professional graphic studio specializing in scanning, processing, and printing of exhibition-quality photographs.

Admission: free

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Negatives from the container 1900-1945

Through photographs from his collection of negatives, Martin Wagner visually traces almost five decades of the 20th century. He does not look back at world-famous events. Instead, he projects onto the pages of his book a part of history that is doomed to oblivion. His contribution to the knowledge of the Central European past - and thus to European culture in general - emerges from the remains of people who did not live to see their personal records revived. Although most of the reproduced photographs were not originally intended for the public, this book transforms them into a transpersonal legacy.

-Josef Moucha, Illuminations of a Sunken World

About Martin Wagner (1980)

Martin Wagner is a documentary photographer. He was born and lives in Prague. In 2013, he completed his master's degree at the Institute of Creative Photography at the University of Silesia in Opava. For many years he photographed in the countries of the former Soviet Union. He published these works in Siberia (2019). Together with Karel Cudlín and Jan Dobrovský, colleagues from the 400 ASA photographers' association, he published his work in Lost Europe (2020), which focused on Ukraine. He has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad. For three years he ran his own photo gallery in the Chapel of St. John Nepomuk in the center of Prague (2003-2006). His wife Světlana comes from Siberia, their son Václav was born in 2013. He has been collecting negatives for three decades, most of whose authors are unknown. He has developed technical processes for digitizing negatives and has been working with Tomáš Mandys on a device for the rapid digitization of 35mm negatives since 2023. He also runs a professional graphics studio that specializes in scanning, editing and printing exhibition-quality photographs.

Free admission

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[RU]
Негативы из мусорного контейнера 1900-1945

С помощью фотографий из своей коллекции негативов Мартин Вагнер визуально прослеживает почти пять десятилетий XX века. Он не обращается к общеизвестным мировым событиям. Вместо этого он переносит на страницы своей книги ту часть истории, которая обречена быть забыта. Его вклад в познание центральноевропейского прошлого - а следовательно, и европейской культуры в целом - формируется из остатков жизней людей, которые не дожили до того момента, когда их личные записи были возвращены к жизни. Хотя воспроизведённые фотографии изначально, как правило, не предназначались для широкой публики, эта книга превращает их в надличное наследие.

- Йозеф Моуха, Озарения исчезнувшего мира (Illuminations of a vanished world)

О Мартине Вагнере (1980 г.р.)

МартинВагнер - документальный фотограф. Он родился и живёт в Праге. В 2013 году он получил степень магистра в Институте креативной фотографии Силезского университета в Опаве. В течение многих лет он фотографировал в странах бывшего Советского Союза. Эти работы были опубликованы в книге Сибирь (2019). Совместно с Карелом Чудлином и Яном Добровским - коллегами по фотоассоциации 400 ASA - он выпустил сборник Потерянная Европа (2020), посвящённый Украине. Его работы были представлены на многочисленных персональных и групповых выставках в Чехии и за рубежом. В течение трёх лет он руководил собственной фотогалереей в часовне святого Яна Непомуцкого в центре Праги (2003-2006). Его жена Светлана родом из Сибири, их сын Вацлав родился в 2013 году. На протяжении трёх десятилетий он собирает негативы, чьи авторы чаще всего остаются неизвестными. Он разработал технические методы цифровки негативов и с 2023 года совместно с Томашем Мандысом работает над устройством для быстрой цифровки 35-миллиметровых негативовки. Он также управляет профессиональной графической студией, специализирующейся на сканировании, обработке и печати фотографий выставочного качества.

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