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| Author: | Petr Volf, Alex Jasiński |
| Category: | Books, Photography |
| Language: | Czech and English |
| Translation: | Jack Coling, Petr Fantys |
| Page count: | 84 |
| Binding: | Hbk |
| ISBN: | 978-80-7437-228-5 |
| EAN: | 9788074372285 |
| Date: | 2017 |
| Issue number: | 1. |
| Price: | 25 EUR |
| Size: | 20,6 x 24,4 cm |
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Metropolight is young photographer David Gaberle’s debut publication. Although the book presents his first-ever comprehensive photographic series, the result feels eminently mature. The pictures were taken in hypermodern cities such as Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Sydney, London, and New York. Gaberle observes alleyways, stairwells, parks, train stations, subway cars, galleries, and bridges, slowly revealing the hidden order that exists between the world of things and the world of people. In his introduction to the book, author Petr Volf writes: “The photographs’ range of color carries symbolic meanings, and the lights of the visited cities – whether natural, direct, or artificial – become lighthouses which make us feel safe.”
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.