Jan (Johann) Böhm (1895–1952) and his view of chemical laboratories in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s through the eyes of an amateur photographer

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Jan (Johann) Böhm (1895–1952) and his view of chemical laboratories in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s through the eyes of an amateur photographer

Original language description

Böhm had shown a creative approach to photography since his early stay in Germany, as evidenced by his pho­tograph of the Berlin laboratories. Böhm was not the only Czech chemist who pursued photography during his life­time – there were others such as Karel Kruis, Karel Šmirous, Přemysl Koblic, and Jan Lauschman. In the past, chemists were very close to photography. Their knowledge enabled Figure 2 A scene from a laboratory at the German University, Prague. Digitized 9 × 12 cm, negative on glass plate, about 1920. (National Technical Museum Archive, Jan Böhm, fond, no. 869)n hem to use the photography process properties to the maximum and therefore achieved better results than photographers who lacked chemical education. During the 1920s–1940s, the quality of photographic materials mostly limited the possibilities of photography. Glass plates and films had poor sensitivity to light and rather coarse film grain, which resulted in insufficient image sharpness. In order to obtain positives without the film grain structure and with tolerable sharpness, large­format negative material (and devices) was required. Under poor lighting conditions, one had to use a tripod for taking pictures.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Historická fotografie

ISSN

1213-399X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

70-79

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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