In 1945, immediately after the end of the Second World War, Josef Sudek (1896–1976) took to the streets of Prague to document the damage sustained by the city. This endeavor produced a unique series of almost four hundred photographs, both documentary and artistic in nature, depicting the ravaged buildings, dismantled statues and the air raid and fire precautions of the time. Today, this collection of negatives is housed at the Czech Academy of Sciences' Institute of Art History in Prague. The current exhibition presents forty newly-made prints of these images which have never been exhibited before. The exhibition has moved to Rome from Milan and it will later move to Paris, Wroclaw and Moscow. Prague City Gallery accomodates larger version of the exhibition until 19 August 2018.
19 July – 7 October 2018
Museo di Roma in Trastevere
Piazza S. Egidio 1/b, Roma, Italy