Jindrich Marco

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Jindřich Marco (born May 10, 1921 in Prague , † December 20, 2000 in Prague) was a Czech photographer and numismatist . Marco's post-war photo documentation made him known internationally.

After graduating from high school in 1940, he worked as a photographer during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia and was deported to a forced labor camp in 1944 because of his partly Jewish origins. After the end of the war he worked as a photojournalist from 1945 to 1948. He dealt extensively with the consequences of the war in Europe, especially the fate of ordinary people and their return to normal life. Immediately after the war he took photos in Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw, Budapest, London and other cities. His pictures have appeared in Svět v obrazech and other Czechoslovak magazines and in international magazines such as Weekly Illustrated , Life , Liliput , Picture Post and Paris Match . In 1950 he was sentenced to ten years in prison in a show trial in Czechoslovakia. For the longest period of imprisonment he worked in the mines in Jáchymov . After his release in 1957 he wrote non-fiction books on graphics, numismatics and ancient weapons and created photographic documentation. His book Comrade Aggressor on the Soviet occupation of Prague was published in Vienna in 1968 under the pseudonym Václav Svoboda.

Publications

  • Jindřich Marco: Please buy my new song . Prague 1967, Artia
  • Vaclav Svoboda: Comrade Aggressor. Prague in August 1968 , Vienna / Frankfurt / Zurich 1968, Europa Verlag
  • with Margit Pflagner : Burgenland . 80 color pictures with explanations in German and English. Photo book, Frick Verlag, Vienna 1970.
  • Jindřich Marco: Soudruh Agresor , Prague 1990, Mlada Fronta

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personal data
SURNAME Marco, Jindrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marco, J .; Svoboda, Václav (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech photographer and numismatist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 2000
Place of death Prague