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| Author: | Pavel Hroch, Jáchym Topol |
| Category: | Books, Photography |
| Language: | English and Czech |
| Page count: | 120 |
| Binding: | Hbk |
| ISBN: | 978-80-7437-143-1 |
| EAN: | 9788074371431 |
| Date: | 2014 |
| Issue number: | 1. |
| Price: | 22 EUR |
| Size: | 21 x 23 cm |
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The photographs of Pavel Hroch and Jáchym Topol’s essay record the wild years following the Velvet Revolution in Prague, an exciting time of celebrating the newfound freedom after the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. The emotions of the country’s inhabitants flowed out onto the streets from more personal zones, along with many other previously suppressed subjects – and also the many repeat offenders released by the president’s amnesty. Confusion was mixed with joy and with a desire to do everything that had been previously forbidden, with no order or rules and with no more than abstract and idealized objectives. A counterpart to Hroch’s photographs from post-revolution Prague are his pictures from demonstrations in West Berlin, where left-wing radicals spit on capitalism under the banner of Mao Zedong, and also his pictures from Moscow, where anti-government protesters were calling for a return to the old order. All this was Central and Eastern Europe in the early 1990s – a place full of euphoria, illusions, and paradoxes.
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.