#28 cultura / natura
We shall attempt to define the theme of the upcoming Fotograf Festival from its middle point, at the borderline between culture and nature, and in relation to how that borderline is rewritten, to the points of overlap sought between them, and to the strange constellations in which artificial things become natural and natural artificial. It is no accident that it is these constellations, these ‘blue flowers’ (the image Walter Benjamin uses in reference to the presence of immediate reality in the world of film), that become such rewarding photographic objects. The camera brings us closer to nature but at the same time distances us from it. The attempt to capture nature in the lens of the camera can then be likened to the desire to understand a wild animal by placing it in a zoo or to learn about rare trees by planting them in a park or an exotic flower by visiting a greenhouse in a botanical garden. The naturalness of nature only comes to the forefront once we have experience its opposite; as Derrida points out, the awareness of nakedness is essentially human – animals are naked without knowing it.
The urge to return to nature is indelibly linked to the pervasiveness of technology in our lives. All around us irreversible processes are going on that are driven by momentary needs instead of long-term considerations. What do contemporary art and photography have to say about this and how do they say it?
#43 collecting — Intro
Collecting – special 20th anniversary issue

This edition departs from our series of thematic issues, as it is a celebration of the magazine’s twentieth birthday. As is usually the case with birthday celebrations (particularly such important ones), memories of the past intersect with the future…
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The Infinity of Lists

An incomplete calendarium of Czech photography 2002–2022
Even though history is not obedient and does not unfold from a given date to another, instead passing by in an unbroken continuum, it is our habit to single out various epochs and phases…
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Adam Evans

The digital collage Hledání mentefaktu (Finding the Mentefact, 2018) was created as an intuitive illustration for a performative research expedition at the site of a former landfill where a friend and I were staying…
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#43 collecting — Collecting special
The Beginner Collector’s Guide to Photography

Over the past fifty years, the photography market has seen significant development and growth. The rarest photographs sell at auctions for prices on a par with major works of contemporary art…
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Interview with Sven Eisenhut, the Director of Photo Basel

In mid-June 2022, I visited Photo Basel, a charming boutique fair dedicated to photography that takes place during the Art Basel week. It is a stop worth making as the fair’s approach is different in comparison to others…
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- ––– Project
- Disruptors of Social Stomach
- ––– Profiles
- Barbora Fastrová
- Ferdinand Bučina
- Josef Václav Staněk
- Peter Bartoš
- Asunción Molinos Gordo
- Michal Kern
- Bill McDowell
- Martin and Osa Johnson
- Petr Košárek
- Lukáš Kubec
- Adam Vačkář
- Pavel Sterec
- Simone Nieweg
- Jakub Skokan & Martin Tůma
- Claudiu Cobilanschi
- From the Ralsko Project
- ––– Interview
- Philippe Descola interviewed by Mariana Serranová
- ––– Discoveries
- Tricia Gahagan
- Jason Larkin
- Beatrix Reinhardt
- ––– Theory
- Modes of Seeing, Modes of Figuration
- Epilogue: The Spectrum of Possibilities
- ––– Events
- Obituary: Adam Holý
- 47the Edition of Arles Photography Festival
- Fotofestival Zingst
- ––– Fotograf Gallery
- Jan Nálevka
- Tereza Kabůrková
- ––– Reviews
- Miloš Spurný: The Czech-Moravian Highlands
- And the mysterious magic of the photographer's work does not consist in the red glow of the darkroom,
- Documentary in the Expanded Field
- Geoffrey Batchen: Emanations/ The Art of the Cameraless Photograph
- Josef Sudek as a Mannerist
- Elemental - Folk Art, Folk Politics
Archive
- #42 food
- #41 postdigital photography
- #40 earthlings
- #39 delight, pain
- #38 death, when you think about it
- #37 uneven ground
- #36 new utopias
- #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