Vladimir Kozak Photographs
name: label: Creator
content: Kozák, Vladimir, 1897-1979
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The photographs were donated by Peter Wrench, whose grandfather was friends with Kozak.
creator: label: Creator
content: Kozák, Vladimir, 1897-1979
culture: label: Culture
content: Heta Indians
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Vladimir Kozak (1897-1979) was trained in Czechoslovakia in mechanical engineering, sculpture, and painting. In 1923, he immigrated to Brazil. As Kozak's interest in the indigenous tribes of Brazil grew during the 1940s and 1950s, he increasingly focused on photographing and painting Native individuals and aspects of their culture.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 99 Photographic prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1959-1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2016-33
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 99 Black and white photographic prints by Vladimir Kozak primarily depicting indigenous Brazilians, but also including views of the countryside and a village. Kozák annotated many of the prints on verso.