Education
Šťastný studied at the Střední průmyslová škola grafická in Prague, and after he finished his studies, he worked at the Barrandov Studios.
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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. Since 1926 he worked as a photographer in the journal Pestrý týden.
In the editorial team of Pestrý týden he collaborated with Milena Jesenská, Adolf Hoffmeister, Bohumil Markalous and others
Šťastný simultaneously documented Prague culture life, exhibitions et cetera Since 1928 he devoted himself to medical photography.
During the World World War II Šťastný photographed locations of German weapons V-1 and helped to inform Czechoslovak exile government in London. He also helped with documentation of the Prague uprising, his photographs of that event were published in 1946 in the book The New Vision by László Moholy-Nagy.
Pestrý týden quit all activities in May 1945.
He died in Prague on 15 July 1991.
Membership
Bohumil Šťastný was a member of the Czechoslovakian Photographic Society and from 1932 to 1948 he was a chairman of that institution.
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Nationality
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Political Party
New Vision