Miroslav Hak (1911–1978) - Wenceslas Square during the Prague Uprising, in May 1945

Beautiful silver print with printed photographer's credit on the reverse.

AGE: shot 1945, printed later in 1960
PROCESS: gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper
DIMENSIONS: c. 29.8 x 24.8cm
CONDITION: overall very good – all imperfections as illustrated.

Miroslav Hák (9 May 1911, in Nová Paka, Bohemia – 29 June 1978, in Prague) was a Czechoslovak photographer. He was one of the members of Group 42.
Miroslav Hak was one of the most outstanding figures in the history of Czech modern photography and ranked among the innerly rich and actually never fully recognized and recognizable personalities in the sphere of art. He studied under his father, the photographer František Hák. Between 1925 and 1931 Hák worked as a photographer in Prague on publications including Pestrý týden and in Bratislava.
In 1937 he joined the avant-garde D34 Theatre of Prague as a photographer and from 1940 he worked in the film industry.
Between 1942 and 1948 Miroslav Hák associated with the Prague-based Group 42, which united avant-garde Czech photographers. From 1954 he served as a photographer at the Institute of Art Theory and History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.

The Prague uprising was a partially successful attempt by the Czech resistance movement to liberate the city of Prague from German occupation in May 1945, during the end of World War II. The preceding six years of occupation had fuelled anti-German sentiment and the rapid advance of Allied forces from the Red Army and the United States Army offered the resistance a chance of success. As "the greatest military action of the Czechs for freedom and national independence fought on their own territory," in the words of journalist Jindřich Marek, the Prague uprising became a national myth of the new Czechoslovak republic and the subject of much literature. (wikipedia)