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| Author: | text Vladimír Birgus |
| Category: | Books, Photography, Art |
| Language: | English and Czech |
| Translation: | Derek Paton |
| Page count: | 120 |
| Binding: | Hbk |
| ISBN: | 978-80-7437-069-4 |
| EAN: | 9788074370694 |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Issue number: | 1 |
| Price: | 20 EUR |
| Size: | 22 x 24 cm |
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‘What would it be like if I had been born somewhere else, in a different way, to other parents? What would I be like today, what would my life be like, and who would I live with?’
In her photographic self-portraits, the Czech photographer Dita Pepe (b. 1973) shows that she is a woman of many faces. One face is that of the self-confident wife of a rich businessman. Another is that of a simple country girl in a dress and floral-print smock, sitting together with a similarly dressed old woman in a home for the elderly. In a third photo she is the mother of a large Roma family. And in others she is an affectedly smiling collector of rare china and one of two sportswomen confidently displaying their muscular bodies in leotards. Daughter, grand-daughter, sister, or friend of many women. Wife, lover, or friend of many men. Mother of many children. Chameleon. Dita Pepe has created dozens of meticulously staged self-
-portraits in which she changes her age, character, and social status, and adapts to the people with whom she is photographed. She is an artist of works in which staged photography distinctively mixes with sociological documentary work, the psychological characterization of specific people merges with a generalizing picture of various cultures, classes, or gender stereotypes, ‘high art’ blends with pop culture, postmodernism with conceptual art, the sociological portrait with fashion photography.
This is the first book about Dita Pepe.
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.