Jarom�r Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde

June 2009, Backstory - Matthew Witkovsky, chair and curator, department of photography, the Art Institute of Chicago. Jarom�r Funke, a leading figure in Czech and Slovak photography between the world wars, blazed a path with his compatriots�a group of committed amateurs�toward photography as a modern form of art. In this podcast, produced on the occasion of the Gallery exhibition Jarom�r Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde, Witkovsky talks to host Barbara Tempchin about the Czech photographer's influential role in this movement.