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| Author: | Petr Volf (ed.) |
| Category: | Books, Photography, Architecture |
| Language: | English and Czech |
| Translation: | George A. Komrower |
| Page count: | 190 |
| Binding: | Pbk |
| ISBN: | 978-80-7437-302-2 |
| EAN: | 9788074373022 |
| Date: | 2019 |
| Issue number: | 1. |
| Price: | 20 EUR |
| Size: | 17 x 24 cm |
The book 30 Years of Freedom commemorates the anniversary of the events that began in November 1989 with student protests and subsequently became a fundamental milestone in recent Czech history. In 1989, students of the Faculty of Architecture of CTU and prominent Czech architects alike took part in the Velvet Revolution.
The course of this historic turning point and its subsequent influence on societal change, as well as on the profession of architecture as such are elaborated through interviews with seven distinctive personalities in the field and across several generations. For the book, Jiří Horský and Petr Volf spoke with Mirko Baum, Tomáš Hradečný, Ladislav Lábus, Miroslav Masák, Michaela Mrázová, Tomáš Šenberger and Zdeněk Zavřel. The publication also includes essays by Oldřich Ševčík and Vladimír Šlapeta, in which these renowned authors – each from his own perspective – meditate on the legacy of November 89 for the present and beyond.
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.