#4 Intimacy
The subject of intimacy is both tempting and at the same time dangerously popular, not to say populist. Apart from corporeal or erotic intimacy, however, there is intimacy regarding personal space and the objects and stories within this space, which has been the focus of photography from its earliest days. The visual record of this intimacy neither seeks attention nor wishes to provoke, instead it seems to represent the photographer’s quest to find balance in relation to the outside world, a quest for inner harmony. It seems appropriate that Josef Sudek, who is foremost among the classics of Czech photography to prefigure this notion of intimacy, was once dubbed by the Czech poet Jaroslav Seifert as “the great harmonizer”.
#4 Intimacy — Portfolios
Bohdan Holomíček
“Following a diary can carrry you across centuries, and suddenly you breathe that time alongside the author, and can almost touch it. With photographs it is even easier than with the written word, as an image needs no translation, it is the simplest of languages…
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Markéta Othová
Markéta Othová (1968) has never taken good “photos”, and nor has she cared to. Her intention has always been, and remains, quite the opposite. Through “photos” she tries to discover and make accessible a vision that will always remain purely her own…
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Tina Bara
Mimetic behavior should be considered as conditio humana, but it is only in the difference between the imitation and the imitated that individuality really comes into being, and if we are speaking about art, the imaginative or creative quality…
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Hynek Alt & Saša Vajd
Hynek Alt and Aleksandra Vajd, are not only a Czech-Slovenian collaborative artistic team within the medium of photography, they are a couple in life as well. They were in charge of the workshop course Photographic Author’s Book during the 2002/2003 school year at FAMU, Prague, where they also completed their Master’s degrees in Photography…
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Martina Mullaney
In a 1967 essay the French thinker Michel Foucault outlined the concept of the heterotopia. This is a space where, within defined and organised boundaries, and despite the intention of its design, there may be multiple and contradictory uses…
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Jan Svoboda
Jan Svoboda (1934–1990) became a legend of Czech photography already in his lifetime. Not even fifteen years after his death, this legend has achieved a near-Faustian dimension, which gradually begins to obscure the work of its creator…
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- ––– Profiles
- Martina Mullaney
- Phoebe Maas
- Peter Janáčik
- Hynek Alt & Saša Vajd
- Delphine Kreuter
- ––– Reviews
- Ivan Pinkava
- Panoramic Vision in Grey
- Unheard Voices
- Photography?? Photography!!
- An Absolute Photographer
- Breath of the Cosmos
- ––– Events
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- 35th recontres d'arles
- Fotofest Houston
- ––– History
- The Witness Pavel Štecha >
- Zdeněk Tmej: Story without a Happy Ending
- The american dream of Alexander Hammid
- The Primer of Postmodernism: Josef Sudek
- ––– Portfolios
- Tina Bara
- Markéta Othová
- Bohdan Holomíček
- Juraj Lipscher
- Jan Svoboda
- ––– Tendencies
- Barbora Kuklíková
- Sylva Francová
- Tereza Kabůrková
- 1+1
- Silvie Milková
Archive
- #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
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- #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
