Ceskoslovensko

Ceskoslovensko - Karel Plicka

Karel Plicka photographed usually on tripod formats 6 x 9 to 10 × 15, without optical and laboratory tricks. Pictures of Charles Plicka are fully realistic settings to exceptional effect, randomness, volatile impression. They are deprived of non-constituents (e.g. the expressions of contemporary life), to act as valuable and permanent impression, independent of the specific time. Plicka looking for durability, perfection, harmony and solidarity. With knowledge, commitment and individual aesthetic feeling created a unique creative style. Based on classical rules of composition, waiting for the ideal lighting conditions. The central theme of his work by a man as bearer of folk traditions. The basic theme of the enrichment of architecture as the legacy of the past and of nature as a life force, surrounding the man. Plicka developed a distinctively traditional subject of national history and folk traditions in the new means of expression - photography and film. Photographs in both B&W and color.