#20 Public Art
In relation to art in the public space, it is rather unusual to focus primarily on the medium of photography, despite the fact that public space in general is saturated with the photographic image. For this reason, we have decided to highlight those projects which offer an intervention into the monopoly of the commercial messages seen in public. At the same time, these are images which are site-specific in nature, also addressing such issues as the role of galleries and other institutions designated as places for art.
The next issue of Fotograf magazine is dedicated to the theme of Public Art, and will focus on photographic projects which work with public space (meaning actual physical spaces, rather than the virtual space of the internet and new media – a subject so vast that it could not be contained within the forthcoming issue). We have selected those projects that make us vigilant and hopeful that a single individual can still have an impact on public space.
#41 postdigital photography — Profiles
Filip Láb

Filip Láb, who died unexpectedly and prematurely in May 2021, was not only a prominent theorist and teacher of photography, but was also one of a generation of artists that dealt with the shift in political polarities and radical changes in the photographic paradigm…
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Eva and Franco Mattes

Two recent works by Eva and Franco Mattes – Personal Photographs (2019) and Nostalgia May 3, 2021 (2021) – invite us to see photographs, and their authors, as online platforms see them…
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Agnieszka Sejud

Apart from studying law in Wroclaw, the Polish author Agnieszka Sejud also studied at the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava. Her training, therefore, is in photography, even though she presents herself more as a visual artist and activist in her work, often as a member of the art duo KWAS, which she forms with her ICP classmate Karolina Wojtas…
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#41 postdigital photography — Profiles
Bára Mrázková

We see something, we don’t exactly know what. We want to find out; we enter the image into the search engine. It finds something, we don’t know exactly how, usually more or less the right thing…
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Sanaz Sohrabi

Although it might sometimes seem that way, photographs never exist in themselves. And this is doubly true of those made by machines or for archival or documentary purposes. As the art of Sanaz Sohrabi demonstrates, images (and particularly reproduced images) are part of often unwanted testimony embedded into dense nets of relationship…
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- ––– Profiles
- Jan Malý, Jiří Poláček, Ivan Lutterer
- Voina Wanted
- Vladimír Turner
- kennardphillipps
- Lukáš Hájek & Zdeněk Porcal
- Dora Dernerová
- Šejla Kamerić
- Jakub Cabalka & Jakub Červenka
- Tomáš Moravec
- Susanne Bosch
- Wendy Ewald
- Felix Gonzales-Torres
- Silvina Arismendi
- Susan Meiselas
- Dennis Adams
- Braco Dimitrijević
- ––– Discoveries
- Andrew Holligan: Flag
- Marie Quéau: Gojira
- Nate Larson a Marni Shindelman: Geolocation
- ––– Theory
- Artistic blow-ups
- Art and Photography in Public Space
- ––– Events
- Rencontres d'Arles 2012
- ––– Reviews
- Artists' Magazines and Art Magazines
- Photography - Direct Witness?!
- ...and the Chinese cliffs emerged out of the mist
- ––– Appendix
- Discussion Forum Parallel Formats
- Fotograf Festival - Off Limits
Archive
- #35 living with humans
- #34 archaeology of euphoria
- #33 investigation
- #32 Non-work
- #31 Body
- #30 Eye In The Sky
- #29 Contemplation
- #28 Cultura / Natura
- #27 Cars
- #26 Documentary Strategies
- #25 Popular Music
- #24 Seeing Is Believing
- #23 Artificial Worlds
- #22 Image and Text
- #21 On Photography
- #20 Public Art
- #19 Film
- #18 80'
- #17 Amateur Photography
- #16 Photography and Painting
- #15 Prague
- #14 Commerce
- #13 Family
- #12 Reconstruction
- #11 Performance
- #10 Eroticon
- #9 Architecture
- #8 Landscape
- #7 New Staged Photography
- #6 The Recycle Image
- #5 Borders Of Documentary
- #4 Intimacy
- #3 Transforming Of Symbol
- #2 Collective Authorship
- #1 Face