MgA. Vlado Bohdan

Photographer

Vlado Bohdan studied art photography at the Faculty of Film and TV at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (1993 – 1998). Since 1999, he has been teaching theatre photography at the academy and working as a photographer at the IAH CAS. In 2019, he was appointed head of the IAH's photographic studio. Bohdan makes professional photographic documentation of both Czech and international architecture, sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints and applied art objects for IAH's purposes. For exhibitions and publications, he creates new prints and silver bromide prints from original negatives, such as those by Josef Sudek from the collection of IAH CAS.

In his freelance work, he focuses on subjective documentary photography in its metaphorical forms, portrait and theatre photography, and staged art photography.

Photo contributions to the following publications (selection):

Taťána Petrasová a Rostislav Švácha (eds) - Dějiny umění v českých zemích 800–2000”, nakladateství Artefactum, Arbor vitae societas,  Praha 2018.

Štěpán Vácha, Ve stínu Karla Škréty: Pražští malíři v letech 1635-1680“. Academia, Praha 2018.

Ivan Prokop Muchka – Ivo Purš – Sylva Dobalová – Jaroslava Hausenblasová, Hvězda. Arcivévoda Ferdinand Tyrolský a jeho letohrádek v evropském kontextu, Praha 2014.

Klára Benešovská (ed.), Královský sňatek: Eliška Přemyslovna a Jan Lucemburský – 1310, exh. catalogue, Praha 2010.

Zuzana Všetečková, Schodištní cykly velké věže hradu Karlštejna, Průzkumy památek XIII, 2006.

Current projects:

Art of the Gothic and Early Renaissance Periods in the Eastern Bohemia Region. Research, interpretation, presentation (NAKI II, DG16P02B003)

Josef Sudek and Photographic Documentation of Works of Art: From a Private Art Archive to Representing a Cultural Heritage (NAKI II, DG16P02M002)