#6 The Recycle Image
The appropriation of photographs, simple or sophisticated, stylized in the format of family or personal album, is generally well-received by larger audiences. It carries the delightful moment of informality or “naiveté”, which makes them acceptable to many of those who are bored by the excessive sophistication of postmodernism. Many artists currently recycle either amateur photographs or images notorious from the media. Others work with the family album format, historical photographs, or use various methods of recycling existing photographs. The multiplicity of approaches in this form of working with photography prompted the decision to make it the subject of the present issue of Fotograf Magazine.
#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
- Endcommercial
- m+m
- Zbyněk Baladrán
- G.R.A.M
- viktor kopasz
- ––– Theory
- tailor-made intimacies
- quoting as a way of legitimizing artwork
- ––– Events
- the 2005 international festival of photography in łodź
- the 2005 bratislava month of photography
- arles 2005
- ––– Reviews
- the union of european photography festivals
- nobuyoshi araki: tokyo flowers
- kolín 06/2005 in brief
- gerald slota: found
- a unique exhibition
- karel císař: what is photography?
- ––– Action
- Taťjana Medvecká: Interview with Michal Pechouček
- ––– History
- storm in a glass-house
- photograph with an enigma
- ––– Portfolios
- sultan & mandel
- Annu Matthew
- stefan hunstein
- Jaroslav Rössler
- ––– Tendencies
- markéta kinterová
- jan čihák interviews hannah guy
- hannah guy
- kathrine thurlow
- ondřej brody
- xavier gautier
- richard wiesner
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