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72 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 highlights photography 73 hatje cantz verlag fÜr moderne kÜnst nÜrnberg czech vision avant garde photography in czechoslovakia edited by howard greenberg annette kicken rudolf kicken preface by suzanne pastor text by vladimir birgus et al when czechoslovakia finally threw off the communist regime that had isolated and controlled the country s artistic production from its inception in 1948 until its demise in 1989 a treasure trove of avant garde photography from just before the era of repression was suddenly rediscovered revealing a group of artists who were as experimental as they were fundamentally czech in fact there is hardly any other area in the history of photography that has received so little attention as the czech avant-garde work made between the end of world war i and the communist takeover shortly after world war ii this is particularly astonishing because the country produced such a large number of photography groups and artists this large-format collection features several hundred works by more than 40 photographers including frantiek s drtikol jaromÌr funke jaroslav rössler josef sudek anton josef trcka and others czech vision 3-7757-2030-8 978-3-7757-2030-4 hardcover 9.5 x 12.5 in 240 pgs 180 color u.s $65.00 cdn $78.00 september/art exhibition schedule new york howard greenberg gallery 10/0712/07 artists for tich´ tich´ for artists y y text by hans-peter wipplinger roman buxbaum adi hoesle michael stavaric miroslav tich´ was a trained artist with a background in painting and drawing and had a y 30-year career as photographer when he abruptly ended his artistic production in 1990 since then he has avoided the public eye and generally refused to sell his artworks in this volume more than 30 contemporary artists contribute works in response to tich´ s y among them we find photographs of alpine snowboarders by walter niedermayr an erotic drawing by arnulf rainer an enigmatic sculptural work and a drawing of a gallerist standing on an artist s head by erwin wurm a hand-drawn score by michael nyman collaged works by jonathan meese a large round acrylic painting by katharina grosse a surrealistic photo series by anna and bernhard blume a kittenish diptych by fischli and weiss and sundry dark and mysterious works by thomas ruff andro wekua and others the original tich´ images featured here are gorgeous enigmatic and erotic y and are accompanied by portraits of the artist and his fascinating diy cameras artists for tich´ tich´ for artists y y 3-939738-16-6 978-3-939738-16-9 hardcover 9.5 x 12 in 112 pgs 117 color 11 b&w u.s $37.00 cdn $44.00 july/art/photography torst torst torst hatje cantz miroslav tich´ y edited and with text by andreas bee udo kittelmann miroslav tich´ was born in 1926 in what is now the czech republic and studied y at the academy of art in prague after the communist takeover he is widely reported to have spent as many as eight years in detention camps and mental hospitals in the late 1950s he began to make photographs with cameras he designed himself salvaging their lenses from eyeglasses and making their bodies from tin cans toilet-paper rolls and cigarette boxes he chose his subjects from the streets and from public and private spaces of his small town where he is not a favorite with the ladies some have reported his peeping-tom-like activity to the police the resulting images grainy and often overexposed cropped and developed at home framed on card stock decorated in pencil and then left to deteriorate around tich´ s house are haunting in the 1990s tich´ y y stopped making new work but in the midst of his eighth decade the art scene came crashing into tich´ s life with the 2005 discovery prize from rencontres y d arles followed shortly by his first solo show at the kunsthaus zurich of his thousands of images only a few hundred have since been seen this catalogue features 80 photographs from the collection of the museum of modern art mmk frankfurt miroslav tich´ y 3-7757-2015-4 978-3-7757-2015-1 hardcover 8 x 9.5 in 144 pgs 200 color u.s $40.00 cdn $48.00 december/photography frantiek drtikol portraits s though he is best known for his art nouveau and art deco nudes when frantisek drtikol 18831961 passed away he left more portrait photography than anything else thousands of images made between 1910 and the 1930s this ambitious book is the first ever devoted to those portraits alone the selection culled from some 2,000 in prague s national archive presents a gallery of eminent czechs and slovaks during the first czechoslovak republic as well as prominent visitors to the country from many walks of life franti ek drtikol portraits s 80-7215-301-3 978-80-7215-301-5 paperback 6.5 x 7 in 178 pgs 90 b&w u.s $25.00 cdn $30.00 july/photography iren stehli this survey of iren stehli s images from 1973 to 2001 captures czech life over an intense three decades encompassing communism the velvet revolution and more stehli s human stories of that era alternate with conceptual series both of which share a characteristic poetry and humor the thematically arranged chapters of iren stehli offer a compact overview of her oeuvre and subtle compelling testimony to the last decades of czechoslovakian socialism and the transformation into a free-market democracy her previous book is libuna a gypsy s life in prague iren stehli 80-7215-284-x 978-80-7215-284-1 paperback 6.5 x 7 in 176 pgs 125 b&w u.s $25.00 cdn $30.00 july/photography josef binko on top of his day job he was co-owner of a czech tannery josef binko 1879-1960 made time to create one of the most important amateur photography portfolios of his era his darkroom is part of a permanent exhibition at the national technical museum prague and he is one of only two czech photographers whose brome oil and gum bichromate prints from before world war i are known to have survived in the hundreds binko has only recently come to be understood as a major contributor to the early years of his media josef binko 80-7215-281-5 978-80-7215-281-0 paperback 6.5 x 7 in 148 pgs 74 color u.s $25.00 cdn $30.00 july/photography

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