#14 Commerce
Commerce is a theme that has undergone marked development both in the field of gallery photography (photographs as a collector commodity) and also mainly in that of commissioned photography, tied mainly to the production of product catalogues, design of architecture and to advertisement and fashion. In both latter cases the certain controversy of this theme is much stronger/more marked. Advertisement, or fashion is according to some, who under their breath disdain their commercial colleagues, a „perfumed carcass“ (as Oliviero Toscani called it) and for others it is, to the contrary, „a true art, speaking to the broad masses.“ In this issue of Fotograf we would like to contribute to the discussion of where commercial liability and creativity begin and end, and how the fields of fine art and applied photography can influence, or be tolerated by, certain creative artists.
#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
- Zuzanna Krajewska & Bartek Wieczorek
- René & Radka
- Dan Cermak
- ––– Theory
- Fashion photography - a strong genre
- ––– Events
- The 21st international festival of photojournalism in Perpignan
- Paris photo 2009
- ––– Reviews
- Miroslav Jodas: photographs 1961-2008
- In memory of Jan Reich
- Ladislav Sitenský's acquired muse
- Outside
- Vice
- Once upon a time in the east
- Traces and records
- ––– Action
- Adam Holý
- ––– Portfolios
- Tono Stano
- Daniel Stier
- Philippe Jarrigeon
- Pavel Mára
- Nadav Kander
- Fred Kramer
- ––– Tendencies
- Jan Malý
- Petr Willert
- Kamila Musilová
- Tina Tahir
- Bára Prášilová
- Jan Mahr
- Juliana Křížová & Jakub Vlček
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