PHOTOBLOCK - Lukasz Gorczyca, Adam Mazur
The book seeks to bring together a canon of Central European photobooks, and is the first comprehensive Polish publication to synthesize knowledge on the subject. It includes essays by leading Polish specialists in the field, Lukasz Gorczyca and Adam Mazur, an essay by Thomas Wiegand on the use of photobooks for East German propaganda, and a text by Adriana Dumitran on Heda Löffler, one of the most interesting figures in twentieth-century Romanian photography. The exceptionality of Central European photobooks lies in the way they combine artistic ambition and propaganda, grand historical narratives and small enclaves of freedom. The books we present use photography to tell the story of the region, but they are also documents in their own right, illustrating changing social relations, political visions and the functions of photography and art. An important trope is the range of intriguing local variations, such as the astonishing Czech school of modernist photography or the underground Polish publications of the 1980s. The book was published on the occasion of Photobloc. Central Europe in Photobooks exhibition, presented at the ICC Gallery from November 22, 2019 to March 1, 2020. The publication is also available in Polish.
Published by International Cultural Centre Krakow, 2019
348 pages
28 x 24 cm
ISBN: 978-8366419018
The book seeks to bring together a canon of Central European photobooks, and is the first comprehensive Polish publication to synthesize knowledge on the subject. It includes essays by leading Polish specialists in the field, Lukasz Gorczyca and Adam Mazur, an essay by Thomas Wiegand on the use of photobooks for East German propaganda, and a text by Adriana Dumitran on Heda Löffler, one of the most interesting figures in twentieth-century Romanian photography. The exceptionality of Central European photobooks lies in the way they combine artistic ambition and propaganda, grand historical narratives and small enclaves of freedom. The books we present use photography to tell the story of the region, but they are also documents in their own right, illustrating changing social relations, political visions and the functions of photography and art. An important trope is the range of intriguing local variations, such as the astonishing Czech school of modernist photography or the underground Polish publications of the 1980s. The book was published on the occasion of Photobloc. Central Europe in Photobooks exhibition, presented at the ICC Gallery from November 22, 2019 to March 1, 2020. The publication is also available in Polish.
Published by International Cultural Centre Krakow, 2019
348 pages
28 x 24 cm
ISBN: 978-8366419018
The book seeks to bring together a canon of Central European photobooks, and is the first comprehensive Polish publication to synthesize knowledge on the subject. It includes essays by leading Polish specialists in the field, Lukasz Gorczyca and Adam Mazur, an essay by Thomas Wiegand on the use of photobooks for East German propaganda, and a text by Adriana Dumitran on Heda Löffler, one of the most interesting figures in twentieth-century Romanian photography. The exceptionality of Central European photobooks lies in the way they combine artistic ambition and propaganda, grand historical narratives and small enclaves of freedom. The books we present use photography to tell the story of the region, but they are also documents in their own right, illustrating changing social relations, political visions and the functions of photography and art. An important trope is the range of intriguing local variations, such as the astonishing Czech school of modernist photography or the underground Polish publications of the 1980s. The book was published on the occasion of Photobloc. Central Europe in Photobooks exhibition, presented at the ICC Gallery from November 22, 2019 to March 1, 2020. The publication is also available in Polish.
Published by International Cultural Centre Krakow, 2019
348 pages
28 x 24 cm
ISBN: 978-8366419018
