Krkonoše were and still remain a sizeable photographic subject. Their beauty attracted already romantic revival artists; and for photographers Krkonoše were their oldest region of interest, after Karlovy Vary and Teplice. Indigenous and foreign photographers travelled to Krkonoše, with the local ones speaking either Czech or German.
As far as our understanding goes, the oldest set of Krkonoše photographs were made by a French photographer Adolphe Braun in 1858-1862. There followed a series of many dozens of stereo photographs from 1863-1866 from a Dresden photographer Hermann Krone, the most well known personality of the 19th century German photography. The most industrious Krkonoše photographer was Robert Halm during the period of 1874-1885; he was a photographer in Zittau, Hermsdorf/Kynast and Görlitz. During 1882-3 in Krkonoše frequently photographed Jindřich Eckert, the founder of the Czech landscape photography tradition. In the 80s of the 19th century František Krátký and Jan Langhans also started to tour with a camera.
The 90s of the 19th century brought another increase in interest in the highest Bohemian mountains, and their winter beauty began to be appreciated. The new monument became the photographic documentation of winter sports, where especially excelled Rudolf Bruner-Dvořák, the pioneer of photo report in the Czech lands. The winter sports attracted also some local photographers, with the most important professional author Hynek Bedrník, the owner of a portrait studio in Jilemnice from 1894. The numbers of photographers from Saxony, Silesia or the far away Berlin grew steadily, as well as amateurs, out of whom Jaroslav Feyfar, a medical doctor from Jilemnice, was the most notorious one.