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The book aims to compile a canon of Central European photo books 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 photo books for East German propaganda, and a text by Adriana Dumitran on Heda Löffler, one of the most interesting figures in 20th-century Romanian photography. The uniqueness of Central European photo books 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 region’s history, but they are also documents in their own right, illustrating the evolution of social relations, political visions, and the functions of photography and art. The range of intriguing local variations, such as the astonishing Czech school of modernist photography or the clandestine Polish publications of the 1980s, constitutes an important trope. The book was published on the occasion of the 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 aims to compile a canon of Central European photo books 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 photo books for East German propaganda, and a text by Adriana Dumitran on Heda Löffler, one of the most interesting figures in 20th-century Romanian photography. The uniqueness of Central European photo books 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 region’s history, but they are also documents in their own right, illustrating the evolution of social relations, political visions, and the functions of photography and art. The range of intriguing local variations, such as the astonishing Czech school of modernist photography or the clandestine Polish publications of the 1980s, constitutes an important trope. The book was published on the occasion of the 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
