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| Author: | Jan Ságl |
| Category: | Books, Photography, Art |
| Language: | English and Czech |
| Translation: | Branislava Kuburovič |
| Page count: | 144 |
| Binding: | Pbk |
| ISBN: | 978-80-7437-142-4 |
| EAN: | 9788074371424 |
| Date: | 2014 |
| Issue number: | 1. |
| Price: | 22 EUR |
| Size: | 22 x 23,5 cm |
Although we now live in a free country we are aware that freedom is a constant struggle, and that one must strive for it again and again on many different levels, in our relations to society, to other people, and to ourselves. This is why freedom, as a more or less perceptible yet constant thread in the work of Jan S.gl, is the theme of this exhibition organised on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Even though S.gl was one of the photographers who actively documented the events after November 1989, the exhibition focuses above all on a selection of works S.gl completed earlier, during the communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Across ten cycles of photographs, often dealing with highly personal themes, viewers will be able to gradually explore the various aspects of the search for freedom (be it civil liberty or personal, inner freedom), of the sense of threat or loss to that freedom, and of points of contact with the free world.
Texts Lenka Bučilová, Jiří Přibáň a Jan Ságl
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.