PWT-6 2016 CONTENTS :

The Iron Curtain served to keep people in and information out III

Václav Chochola V

A Selection of Vintage Prints 1-11

WEEKLY TRANSMISSION N°6 THURSDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2016

PHOTOGRAPHERS BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN : VÁCLAV CHOCHOLA

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N°6 : Václav Chochola

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IRON CURTAIN SPEECH (5 MARCH 1946)

The Iron Curtain was the name of the physical boundary dividing Europe into two separateareas from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War.

The term's use as a metaphor for strict separation can be traced to the early 19th century.It was originally a reference to fireproof curtains in theaters. Although its popularity as a ColdWar symbol is attributed to its use in a speech Winston Churchill gave in March 1946 in Fulton,Missouri.

Various usages of the term "iron curtain" (Russian: Железный занавес Zheleznyj zanaves;German: Eiserner Vorhang; Czech: Železná opona; Slovak: Železná opona; Hungarian:Vasfüggöny; Romanian: Cortina de fier, Italian: Cortina di ferro, Serbian: Гвоздена завесаGvozdena zavesa, Estonian: Raudne eesriie, Bulgarian: Желязна завеса (Zhelyazna zavesä)pre-date Churchill's use of the phrase.

The first recorded application of the term to Communist Russia, again in the sense of theend of an era, comes in Vasily Rozanov's 1918 polemic The Apocalypse of Our Times, and itis possible that Churchill read it there following the publication of the book's English translationin 1920. The passage runs: “With clanging, creaking, and squeaking, an iron curtain islowering over Russian History. — The performance is over." The audience got up. — Time toput on your fur coats and go home." We looked around, but the fur coats and homes weremissing”.

A May 1943 article in Signal, a Nazi illustrated propaganda periodical published in manylanguages, bore the title "Behind the Iron Curtain". It discussed "the iron curtain that morethan ever before separates the world from the Soviet Union".

At the Potsdam Conference, Churchill complained to Stalin about an "iron fence" comingdown upon the British Mission in Bucharest.

Winston Churchill's "Sinews of Peace" address of 5 March 1946, at Westminster College,used the term "iron curtain" in the context of Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe:

— From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an "Iron Curtain" has descendedacross the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central andEastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia;all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Sovietsphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to avery high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.

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VACLAV CHOCHOLA (1923-2005)

1923 Born on 30th January in Libeň in Prague.

1939 An active sportsman and starts takingphotographs of athletic competitions with a 6x9 cmVoigtlander camera.

1940 Buys a Zeis Ikon 6x6cm camera, prints hisphotographs in The Amateur Photography Club.Abandons his studies at Grammar School and starts aphotographic apprenticeship in O. Erbana's studio inLetné in Prague. Gets to know and starts to work withthe photographers Karl Ludwig and Zdeněk Tmej.

1943 First studio in the centre of Prague at 20Soukenická Street. External photographer at theNational Theatre, Vinohrady Theatre, Uranie,Meantime and Intimate Theatre Větrník and othertheatres outside Prague as well. Member of the MánesClub of the Friends of the Arts.

1945 Document the Prague Uprising and the end ofthe war. Continues to photograph post-war theatricalpremieres, the renewed V + W Theatrical Scenes.

1946-48 Photographs the first years of the PragueSpring, just about every sporting discipline - fromathletics, cars, cycling and motorcycling competitions,the traditional annual walking competition fromPrague- Poděbrady, fencing, footbal....1949 Accepted as a member of the Association ofCzechoslovakian Graphic and Visual Artists, K.Ludwig,J.Sudek, J.Lukas, K.Plicka, J.Prošek, J.Brok,J.Ehm,T.Honty, J.Jeníček Z.Tmej. Gets to know thepainter František Tichý.

1951-52 Collaboration with Zdeněk Tmej, bookediting and magazines, suburbian photography.

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1953 Marriage, birth of his daughterBlanka, returns to Libeň with his family.

1957 Passes the editorial screening in theAssociation of Graphic and Visual Artists,Jindřich Chalupecký champions hisphotography. Suffering from total stress ishospitalized in a psychiatric wing.

1961 Three-month stay in North Vietnam,where he was sent by the SČVU togetherwith the photographer Dagmar Hochova.

1968-69 Repeated stays in Paris enrich hiscollection of portraits of personalities:Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Brassai, Max Ernst...

1970 January: Arrested after photographingJan Palach's grave and held on remand fora month in Ruzyň prison. Given asuspended sentence of five years. Hisphotographic equipment is stolen by aPrague taxi driver.

1982 Retrospective exhibition on his 60thbirthday by Jana Reichová and opened byBohumil Hrabal.

1989 First exhibition in America.

1990- 93 In Paris again after a break of morethan twenty years and as a grant-holderfrom the Charter 77 Foundation at LaNapoule Chateaux in the South of France.

2003 80th birthday Exhibition in the Clam-Gallass palace in Prague.

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VÁCLAV CHOCHOLA (1923-2005). 415, Prag, Strahov, 1943. Vintage silver print on mattepaper, 180x120 mm, signed in pencil, recto (#48). 830 euros

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VÁCLAV CHOCHOLA (1923-2005). Soccer Prague-Paris, 1947. Vintage silver print, 240x300mm, stamped, signed and titled in pencel with date 1946 (#48). 600 euros

Churchill's geographical description of the Iron Curtain was ambiguous as to which side ofthe Iron Curtain the Soviet occupation zones of Germany and Austria were on.

Much of the Western public still regarded the Soviet Union as a close ally in the context of therecent defeat of Nazi Germany and of Japan. Although not well received at the time, thephrase iron curtain gained popularity as a shorthand reference to the division of Europe asthe Cold War strengthened.

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VÁCLAV CHOCHOLA (1923-2005). Emil Zátopek, Prag, Strahov, 1949. Vintage silver print,180x130 mm, signed and titled in pencil, verso (#48). 400 euros

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VÁCLAV CHOCHOLA (1923-2005). Eva Bosáková, Prag, 1954. Vintage silver print, 235x180mm, stamped, signed in pencil, verso (#48). 300 euros

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VÁCLAV CHOCHOLA (1923-2005). Weberova (Iceskating), Ostrava, c. 1954. Vintage silverprint, 180x130 mm, signed, stamped, recto (#48). 250 euros

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KARL LUDWIG (1919-1977). St Charles Bridge, Prag, 1947. Vintage silver print, 180x240mm, stamped, annotations by Chochola (#48). 400 euros

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VÁCLAV CHOCHOLA (1923-2005). Campagne tchèque, 1960. Vintage silver print, 180x240mm, signed and captioned in pencil, verso (#48). 200 euros

The Iron Curtain served to keep people in and information out, and people throughout theWest eventually came to accept and use the metaphor

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VÁCLAV CHOCHOLA (1923-2005). Aux Deux Magots, Saint Germain des Prés, Paris, 1968.Vintage silver print, 240x160 mm, signed, stamped (#48). 300 euros

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VÁCLAV CHOCHOLA (1923-2005). Uklid (Waste), Hotel de Tournon, Paris, 1968. Vintagesilver print, 180x240 mm, stamped, (#48). 830 euros

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BLANKA CHOCHOLOVA (born 1953). Stil, Prag, 1978. Vintage silver print, 210x145 mm,stamped, (#48). Blanka is Václav’s daughter. 300 euros

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VÁCLAV CHOCHOLA (1923-2005). Nigh Scenery, Prag, 1950. Vintage silver print, 180x240mm, signed and titled in pencil, verso (#48). 200 euros

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