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| Author: | Milan Pitlach, Carsten Reinhold Schulz |
| Category: | Books, Photography, Art |
| Language: | English and Czech |
| Translation: | Barbara Mainer, Stephan von Pohl |
| Page count: | 120 |
| Binding: | Hbk |
| ISBN: | 978-80-7437-362-6 |
| EAN: | 9788074373626 |
| Date: | 2021 |
| Issue number: | 1. |
| Price: | 37 EUR |
| Size: | 23 x 28 cm |
There are many joyful books, but few books about joy – about joy as an almost basic necessity of life, essential for us to experience feelings of harmony and happiness. In his black-and-white images, photographer Milan Pitlach has captured those fleeting moments when we detach ourselves from worries and break free from everyday life, moments when we find ourselves at the very epicenter of the meaning of being. Joy is not an artificial construct but an intense feeling accessible to each and every one of us. It’s just that the complexities of the world often cause us to forget about it – just as we forget that it is precisely these moments of grace that form an antithesis to the finality of existence and the givenness of death shared by us all. Milan Pitlach’s images of people at moments of spontaneous joy remind us of the things that, however intangible, are more important in a person’s life than all the belongings in the world. His photographs are the essence of joy, and he is its messenger.
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.