Fotograf Magazine

In May 2023, when we were putting together the laudation for the award of the Art History Society Prize to Antonín Dufek, we flipped through photographs that capture important moments in his life. In one of these photographs, Tomáš Fassati captured a young man posing in an office at the Moravian Gallery in Brno. Dufek joined the MG in 1968 and over more than four decades built up a collection of photography that has become a real sensation. Perhaps an even more important contribution of his many years of work was the systematisation of the history of Czech photography.