I first got to know Ad van Denderen’s work in the form of a book, the legendary and highly effective Go No Go, published in several languages in 2003. It is a publication that I frequently use in class and it has a special place on my bookshelf…
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The contemporary tourist is either something of a cynic, a naive consumer of experiences or a constantly fleeing romantic. Ada Zielińska travels through various landscapes for her work, and her photographs contain a certain amount of both romanticism and cynicism…
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What will Prague or New York look like in a thousand or two thousand years? My aim here is not to contribute to the dystopian genre, so popular today. But we do have a sufficient historical experience of the emergence and demise of civilizations…
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In this series, I am documenting my family for the first time. I’m trying to name my relationship with them and with myself. I kept a diary during the making of the series where I recorded situations from the photo shoots…
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Łukasz Gorczyca is not only an art historian, curator and gallerist, but also an avid collector of Polish socialist postcards. Pavel Vančát discussed his view of “socmodern” architecture, leisure and tourism through the prism of postcards and the changes in socialist elan and ethos…
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In May 2023, when we were putting together the laudation for the award of the Art History Society Prize to Antonín Dufek, we flipped through photographs that capture important moments in his life…
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Photography and the tourist set out almost simultaneously on a journey through history on the threshold of modernity. They walk together and transform each other through mutual interactions…
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“You know yours. As do I. It is not knowledge that we lack. What we lack is the courage to realize what it is we know and draw the appropriate conclusion.”
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