The crew from a local TV station made a movie about coal-miners in Ostrava
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The crew from a local TV station made a movie about coal-miners in Ostrava

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Viktor Kolář

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Czechoslovakian, b. 1941

The crew from a local TV station made a movie about coal-miners in Ostrava

From The coal mine


From Ostrava


1990
Gelatin silver print
Image: 22.2 × 32.8 cm (8 3/4 × 12 15/16 in.)
Paper: 26.2 × 34.7 cm (10 5/16 × 13 11/16 in.)
Gift of the FiftyCrows Foundation, 2015
2015.0133.0153
Inscriptions verso (pencil): © VIKTOR KOLÁŘ (Czech Republic) /
from the series OSTRAVA (The coal mine E. Urx 1990)
verso
(pencil): [signed] Viktor Kolar
verso
(applied typewritten label in black ink):
from the series -Ostrava- / The coal mine E.Urx 1990 /
The crew from a local tv station made a movie about coal miners in Ostrava. The couple dancing did not even notice the coalminers from morning shift passing by. Also TV people were gone to get something to eat. I was fortunate enough to record this crucial and very humane moment for ever.

verso (pencil): Kolar Ø7.2
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