Paul Reas
Empathetic Critic of Consumption
For Paul Reas the second important topic of the 1980’s was the phenomenon of the so-called Heritage Industry (here we could loosely translate this construction as an industry focused on cultural monuments). This “industry” began to take off in fact in the 1980’s, supported paradoxically by a cultural crisis caused by consumption and globalization. Critics however consider it to be an idealized view of the past with an aim to reduce it to the level of free time consumption. It’s about nostalgia and sales with all possible souvenirs and visitors armed with cameras and photo apparatuses. In this case, it’s Reas‘ photographic guidebook that is significant: one that attempts to give visitors a view of the “authentic” landscapes from the pictures of John Constable. Photographs from this collection dating from the 1980’s and 1990s were published in the book, Flogging a Dead Horse (an expression meaning a futile effort, literally to beat a dead horse) in 1993; once again with a text by Stuart Cosgrove.
#18 80′
Content
- ––– Profiles
- Jan Regal
- Dušan Šimánek
- Bernard Faucon
- Jindřich Štreit
- Paul Graham
- Jan Wojnar
- Pavel Hečko
- Annelies Strba
- Karel Kameník
- Mark Morrisroe
- Mari Mahr
- Jano Pavlík
- Krzysztof Wodiczko
- Francesca Woodman
- ––– Theory
- At the same place, at the same time
- From a scrapbook. On the subversive documentaries of the 1980's
- ––– Reviews
- In memoriam
- Peeping Tom´s Digest
- Miroslav Tichý: The Legend of Beauty (20. 11. 1926 - 12. 4. 2011)
- Polish! Contemporary Art From Poland
- Koudelka's Chiaroscuro Revelations
- ––– History
- 1980's Fashion - What Was it Like?
- Confronting History
- ––– Tendencies
- Jana Šašková
- Alžběta Diringerová
- Lara Clarke Wardle
- Tereza Havlínková
- Ondřej Telecký
- Jana Butzke
Archive
- #45 hypertension
- #44 empathy
- #43 collecting
- #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