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| Author: | Jiří David |
| Category: | Books, Photography, Art |
| Language: | English and Czech |
| Translation: | Karolina Dolanská, Miroslav Petříček jr., Tamara Bissell |
| Page count: | 240 |
| Binding: | Hbk |
| Ilustration: | foto Martin a Petr Polákovi |
| ISBN: | 80-901903-1-6 |
| EAN: | 9788090190313 |
| Date: | 1995 |
| Issue number: | 1 |
| Price: | 36 EUR |
| Size: | 23 x 34 cm |
A representative publication, published on the occasion of an exhibition in Rudolfinum, summarizing the results of Jiří David´s project. In the course of the couple of years the author have asked a number of famous politicians, artists and athletes to give over the images of their faces - to let him portray them. Subsequently, he matched mechanically two right, respectively left halves of the face two brand new images, perfectly symmetrical and unlike. Among the portrayed personalities we find e.g. Václav Havel, Václav Klaus, Butrus Butrus-Gháli, Norman Mailer, or Boris Becker. The book is closed by a few images that were, as the portreyed ones are not living anymore, created from already existing photographs. In the texts that introduce the book is the whole project explicated by philosophers J. Derrida and V. Bělohradský and art historians M. Dostál and H. Kontová.
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.