Aperture 152 - Summer 1998

Crossing Borders: Contemporary Czech and Slovak Photography

Portfolios and Essays on Contemporary Czech and Slovak Photography.

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Portfolios and Essays on Contemporary Czech and Slovak Photography.

A new generation of Czech and Slovak photographers—heirs to the legacy of such modern masters as Josef Sudek and Frantisek Driktol—will be the subject of the August 1998 issue of Aperture, featuring images never before published in the West. In the Aperture tradition of investigating the contemporary photography of individual nations, Crossing Borders probes the cultural, social, and emotional climate of the post-Communist era as experienced by twenty-three photographers. The writings of such prominent Czech and Slovak writers as the novelist Jan Novak, author of The Willys Dream Kit, and the poet Anna Ondrejkova help to illuminate the full dimensions of contemporary creative life in the Czech and Slovak Republics.

Photographs by:
Pavel Banka, Judita Csaderova, Bohdan Holomicek, Viktor Kolar, Josef Koudelka, Antonin Kratochvil, Zdenek Lhotak, Ivan Lutterer, Jan Maly, Pavel Mara, Pavel Pecha, Ivan Pinkava, Jan Pohribny, Jiri Polacek, Rudo Prekop, Vasil Stanko, Tono Stano, Kamil Varga, and Peter Zupnik.

Format: Paperback / softback
Number of pages: 80
Publication date: 1998-09-30
Measurements: 9.63 x 11.41 x 0.31 inches
ISBN: 9780893818166


Table Of Contents

The Spirit of Prague
by Ivan Klíma

Moments of Grace
by Jan Novak

Czech and Slovak Photography: A History of the Present
by Antonín Dufek

Poem from Les Charmants de L’Aristocratie
by Anna Ondrejková

Poem from My Skull’s Shadow
by J.H. Krchovsky

People & Ideas:

Means to an End
Peter Galassi on the Photographic Work of Aleksandr Rodchenko
by Maureen Clarke

Thanks for Explaining to Me: Jack Smith at P. S. 1
by Ken Jacobs

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