Milena Valušková: Photos from 1971 to 2017

21 Jun 2017 - 29 Oct 2017
Museum of Modern Art
Milena Valušková, from the series Still-Life, 1989-1994
Milena Valušková, from the series Still-Life

Victims of violent crimes, poetry, medical research, as well as childrens portraits or multi-layered landscape studies, all combine the name of the famous Olomouc photographer Milena Valušková. During her life, she has gone through all areas of photography. Since the late 1960s, she has been professionally involved in classical atelier photography, where she specialized in portraits of children in the so-called communal atelier. In the seventies, she had a short but irreplaceable experience in the field of forensic medicine. She also cooperated with the Olomouc Medical Faculty. Between 1977 and 1983 he studied art photography at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In the eighties she worked as a photographer in the Olomouc Center of the State Monument Care and Nature Conservation. Her work ranges from documentary to technically complicated still life.