Alexandr Hackenschmied (17 December 1907, Linz - 26 July 2004, New York City) was a leading avant-garde photographer and filmmaker in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars. Later, he played a similar role in American avant-guard cinema, along with his wife, filmmaker Maya Deren, to whom he was married from 1942 to 1947. He remains barely known to the general public because he has lived abroad since 1939. Also, when in the United States he changed his name, … Wikipedia
The death was announced earlier this week of Alexandr Hackenschmied, one of the leading figures in the Czech avant-garde in the early 20th century. The renowned photographer and filmmaker died at the age of 96 in New York, the city he had called home sin www.radio.cz/en/article/56570
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