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| Author: | Vladimír Birgus, Václav Podestát |
| Category: | Books, Photography |
| Language: | English and Czech |
| Page count: | 116 |
| Binding: | Hbk |
| ISBN: | 978-80-7437-238-4 |
| EAN: | 9788074372384 |
| Date: | 2017 |
| Issue number: | 1. |
| Price: | 22 EUR |
| Size: | 21 x 23 cm |
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With an Angel in the Midst of a Crowd is the first book to publish of a selection of works by leading Czech documentary photographer Václav Podestát.
The publication presents a selection of his works from the past quarter century.
Although many of Podestát’s photographs show solitary individuals who have broken off from the crowds of the big city to delve deep into its essence, on the more general level his works refer to a quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “Man sees only the world that he carries within himself.”
The photographs possess a fresh visual element that is far removed from traditional compositional patterns. Their main message tends to be hidden within a subtext that is open to multiple interpretations.
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.