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| Author: | Jan Ságl |
| Category: | Books, Photography, Art |
| Language: | english and Czech |
| Translation: | Stephan van Pohl |
| Page count: | 540 |
| Binding: | hbk |
| ISBN: | 978-80-7437-091-5 |
| EAN: | 9788074370915 |
| Date: | 2013 |
| Issue number: | 1 |
| Price: | 39 EUR |
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The book bears witness to the early days of the Czech underground, and presents photographs that Jan Ságl took while working with The Primitives Group and The Plastic People of the Universe in the late sixties and the first half of the seventies. The pictures, which the authorities could have easily used against the people depicted in them, had to be hidden for many years. They were not rediscovered until the spring of 2012 – after nearly 40 years during which everyone had thought them irretrievably lost.
Czech Photography of the 20th Century, published simultaneously in Czech and English versions, is the first book to present the main trends, figures, and works of Czech photography from the beginning to the end of the last century to such a large extent. Its 517 plates include not only the most important, well-known photographs and photomontages, but also works that have long been forgotten or are published for the first time. The book is arranged in seventeen chapters, supplemented with chronologies of the most important events in twentieth-century Czech photography and history.