Talk:Jindřich Marco

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Please do not add an infobox. See this arbitration report, and, for a more recent discussion, the talk page for the article on Stanley Kubrick. -- Hoary (talk) 07:18, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Whitewashing history

Petr Tausk [cs], the author of a biographical essay the article refers to over a dozen times, was in 1988, when he wrote it for a US publisher, a Czechoslovak national resident in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. This may explain why the essay makes no mention of Marco's later, Czechoslovak detention, let alone of uranium mines. (Tausk simply has one paragraph about photographing Britain in 1947 and the next paragraph about "the late 1950s".) -- Hoary (talk) 07:18, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Memoir

In his introduction to the Fototorsk book, Vladimír Birgus makes considerable use of Marco's unpublished memoir. Elsewhere, Birgus wrote in 2011: "At the end of this year, his memoirs are to be published by Torst publishing, Prague." ("Jindřich Marco: Photographs from the Years 1945–1948", Photorevue, 1 November 2011. Accessed by the Wayback Machine on 8 November 2018.) I can't find this at WorldCat, and wonder if it was ever published. -- Hoary (talk) 12:10, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blog-ish sources for Please buy my new song

There are also

Hermann Lohss, "Please buy my new song", Hermann Lohss, 22 April 2012.
Andreas H. Bitesnich, "Jindřich Marco, Please buy my new song, 1967", Achtung.photography. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 30 January 2017.
Josef Chladek, "Jindřich Marco - Please buy my new song, Artia, 1967, Prag", Josef Chladek.

Each is, I think, of some value. But each could be criticized as merely a personal reflection without external supervision. Some very careful use could perhaps be made of each; meanwhile, I list them here because hunting for them took some effort. -- Hoary (talk) 05:48, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Photography for Anglie

Marco photographed London in 1946 (and perhaps in 1947 as well). Tausk writes that his photography for Anglie was "done by working twelve hours a day over a period of seven weeks in 1947". Was this in addition to the hours/days in 1946; or is "in 1947" Tausk's mistake for "in 1946 and 1947"? -- Hoary (talk) 01:26, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that most of Jindřich Marco's early photography of Budapest was lost when a train carrying his exposed film was ambushed by Red Army deserters, who threw it out of the window?

Source: Vladimír Birgus [cs]. Jindřich Marco. Fototorst. Prague: Torst, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7215-423-4. Pages 11–12.

ALT1: ... that an irreverent photograph of Czechoslovak President Klement Gottwald brought a ten-year sentence for the photojournalist Jindřich Marco, who had to serve seven years in uranium mines? Source: Josef Moucha [cs]. "The message of a forgotten photographer". Fotograf [cs]. + Vladimír Birgus [cs]. Jindřich Marco. Fototorst. Prague: Torst, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7215-423-4. Page 27. + Vladimír Birgus [cs] and Jan Mlčoch [cs]. Czech photography of the 20th century. Prague: Kant, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7437-027-4. Page 128. + Jiří Zahradnický. "Včera byla válka" (Yesterday was war). Paladix foto-on-line, 12 May 2005. + "Jindřich Marco." AbArt: Archiv výtvarného umění / Archive of Fine Arts.
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Comment: Birgus's text in the Fototorst book is similar to that in the earlier Hořká leta · Evropa = Bitter years · Europe = Bittere Jahre · Europa, here at the Internet Archive.

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Hoary (talk) 01:53, 5 January 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Comment by nominator: As most of the material in Birgus's introduction to Hořká leta · Evropa (1995) reappears in his introduction to Jindřich Marco (2014), I've guessed that the latter benefits from almost two decades of reflection, etc, and therefore in the article have cited it rather than the former. (The older introduction does have detail that the newer one lacks, so I may yet change my mind.) The newer book isn't at the Internet Archive, but you'll be able to verify the original "hook" via page 21 of Hořká leta · Evropa. As for "ALT1", you'll find much of this (but no mention of Gottwald) on page 31 of Hořká leta · Evropa; for Gottwald, see Moucha's "Message". (Both these sources are in English.) -- Hoary (talk) 00:14, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]