Bohumil Šťastný

Bohumil Šťastný (15 June 1905, in Prague – 15 June 1991, in Prague) was a Czech photojournalist, a founder of Czech photojournalism. He concentrated mainly on photographic essays, but he created also still-lifes, portraits, photographs of architecture and advertising photographs. Since the 1930s he was one of the pioneers of the technique of the color photography. He used also some elements of the avant-garde methods in his works. Provided by Wikipedia