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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Text in Hungarian, translated by Rio Preisner. Slight shelf wear, last page damaged from a removed security sticker.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Ethnographer, sociologist, art historian and photographer, Eva Davidova is one of the founders of Gypsy (Roma) studies in the Czech Republic and has been illuminating and investigating this secretive society for half a century. Davidova took her first photographs of Slovak and Olah Gypsy (formerly nomadic Romani) communities and made the first audio recordings of Gypsy stories and music in the 1950s. The collected photographs in the present volume, made between 1956 and 1995, constitute an unparalleled social and artistic document of everyday Gypsy life and the roads the Gypsies have traveled over this past half century. Anna Farova, a leading historian of Czech photography, and Jana Horvathova, Director of the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno, provide essays.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Ethnographer, sociologist, art historian and photographer, Eva Davidova is one of the founders of Gypsy (Roma) studies in the Czech Republic and has been illuminating and investigating this secretive society for half a century. Davidova took her first photographs of Slovak and Olah Gypsy (formerly nomadic Romani) communities and made the first audio recordings of Gypsy stories and music in the 1950s. The collected photographs in the present volume, made between 1956 and 1995, constitute an unparalleled social and artistic document of everyday Gypsy life and the roads the Gypsies have traveled over this past half century. Anna Farova, a leading historian of Czech photography, and Jana Horvathova, Director of the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno, provide essays.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Published together for the first time are the photographs taken by the Czech photographer Zden Tmej during the years 1942-1944 in Breslau, Prussia, where he and others were taken to perform forced labor for the Nazis. Easily the most important and extensive visual documentation of the forced labor camps, these photos have both artistic and historical value.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Published together for the first time are the photographs taken by the Czech photographer Zden Tmej during the years 1942-1944 in Breslau, Prussia, where he and others were taken to perform forced labor for the Nazis. Easily the most important and extensive visual documentation of the forced labor camps, these photos have both artistic and historical value.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Trilingual edition (English, German, and Czech). A nice, crisp copy. ; B&W Photographs; 12mo; 160 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE PAPERBACK Standard-sized.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Leading Czech photographer and photojournalist Tomki Nemec was one of Václav Havel's personal photographers in the 90s. Winner of two World Press Photo awards, his work has been published in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times and Time Magazine. This volume collects his black-and-white documentary photographs of ordinary people throughout the world.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Born in 1944, Prague photographer Jindrich Pribik makes supremely complicated work. Over more than 50 years, he has created 40 overlapping series, an intricate web of mutual references and quotations. Many of the works include written essays, reflections in glass windows, found negatives, literary motifs and other montage elements. …

Paperback. Condition: New. After the Second World War, Czech avant-garde photographer Eva Fuková and her first husband, Vladimir Fuka, were close to the artists of Skupina 42. In 1967, they emigrated to the United States, where Eva Fuková has continued to make work that renders the familiar strange by blending absurdity with raw inspiration.…

Paperback. Condition: New. After the Second World War, Czech avant-garde photographer Eva Fuková and her first husband, Vladimir Fuka, were close to the artists of Skupina 42. In 1967, they emigrated to the United States, where Eva Fuková has continued to make work that renders the familiar strange by blending absurdity with raw inspiration.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Born in 1944, Prague photographer Jindrich Pribik makes supremely complicated work. Over more than 50 years, he has created 40 overlapping series, an intricate web of mutual references and quotations. Many of the works include written essays, reflections in glass windows, found negatives, literary motifs and other montage elements. …

Paperback. Condition: New. Leading Czech photographer and photojournalist Tomki Nemec was one of Václav Havel's personal photographers in the 90s. Winner of two World Press Photo awards, his work has been published in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times and Time Magazine. This volume collects his black-and-white documentary photographs of ordinary people throughout the world.…

First Edition. First edition. Small softcover. 137 pages. Features text by Jaroslav Andel in Czech and with English translation by Derek Paton. Includes numerous black and white images. A fine copy in wrappers.

First Edition. First edition. Small softcover. 143 pages. Text by Josef Moucha in Czech and with English translation by Derek Paton. Includes 88 black and white images. A fine copy in wrappers.

Paperback. Condition: New. The work of the legendary late photographer and samizdat publisher Bohumil "Bob" Krcil, who was born in 1952, is little known in his native country. He left Czechoslovakia in 1969, and for the next 23 years, traveled extensively through much of Europe and Asia, photographing what he encountered. He had a knack for being in the right place at the right time: He captured the Afghan city of Herat before the Soviet invasion, the hashish culture of the Indian part of the Himalayas and New York, where he eventually settled on the Lower East Side, in the 1980s, in a straightforward, documentary style. Of his New York work, The Prague Post wrote, "Like his work from other points across the globe, the photos of New York mostly capture people on the streets or in shops, all of whom seem to radiate the special energy of the city. Even his cityscapes without people are full of life. The best photo from this series is "The Twins in the Wind" (1983), showing the towers of the World Trade Center rising above a mound of earth and utterly isolated against the sky, almost as if they were alone in a desert, touching the clouds." Like his prominent friends, photographers Josef Koudelka and Antonín Kratochvíl, Krcil lived and worked in exile. He is remembered for his innate openness, tolerance and amiability--traits that made him a natural traveler. This publication includes an essay by Jitka Hlavackova, an art historian at Prague City Gallery. …

Paperback. Condition: New. The oeuvre of the leading Czech avant-garde photographer Eugen Wiskovsky (1888-1964) is not large in size or subject range, but it is noteworthy in its originality, depth of ideas, and mastery. Wiskovsky's early New Objectivist works, from the late 1920s and early 1930s, sought artistic effect in apparently nonaesthetic objects: His inventive lighting and cropping allowed their elementary lines to stand out, to lose their worldly associations and take on potential metaphorical meanings. In his dynamic diagonal compositions, Wiskovsky was among the most radical practitioners of Czech Constructivism. His landscape work is similarly distinctive. With text from Vladim'r Birgus, a historian of photography and the head of the Institute of Creative Photography at Silesian University, Opava, in the Czech Republic. …

Paperback. Condition: New. The oeuvre of the leading Czech avant-garde photographer Eugen Wiskovsky (1888-1964) is not large in size or subject range, but it is noteworthy in its originality, depth of ideas, and mastery. Wiskovsky's early New Objectivist works, from the late 1920s and early 1930s, sought artistic effect in apparently nonaesthetic objects: His inventive lighting and cropping allowed their elementary lines to stand out, to lose their worldly associations and take on potential metaphorical meanings. In his dynamic diagonal compositions, Wiskovsky was among the most radical practitioners of Czech Constructivism. His landscape work is similarly distinctive. With text from Vladim'r Birgus, a historian of photography and the head of the Institute of Creative Photography at Silesian University, Opava, in the Czech Republic. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. Jan Ságl, born in Humpolec, Bohemia, in 1942, is a pioneer of color photography in the Czech Republic. He is known for his photographs of landscapes and inconspicuous corners of cultural metropolises, as well as the design work he did for psychedelic concerts with his wife, the artist Zorka Ságlová.…

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