#7 New staged photography
The title “New Staged” photography is deliberate, in order to differentiate the contemporary approaches to staging from the past. There has been a considerable shift in this area of photography both internationally and within the Czech scene. What is it that makes photographers and artists stage their images? The reasons are manifold and the present issue offers a reflection on the ways in which they have been changing in relation to their time. In recent years there appeared radically novel approaches to staging and construction in photography. Eminent international artists whose work continues to inspire younger generations include Jeff Wall and Philip-Lorca diCorcia, who use different approaches to question the seemingly objective visual record or documentary photography.
#37 uneven ground — Profiles
Karol Radziszewski

Radziszewski’s art, in its multidisciplinary medley, is driven in its roots by a longing to carve out a space of diversity and queer beauty out of misery. Be it the secret queer meeting spots in communist Poland or the place for alternative narratives on history, it is constantly craving for a less miserable world…
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Heji Shin

Although the German-Korean artist Heji Shin attained wider popularity through her photographs for the Spring/Summer 2017 collection of the New York-based brand Eckhaus Latta, which featured explicit images of couples of varying ethnicities and sexual orientations engaging in sexual acts, the true scandal arrived with her portraits of the American rapper Kanye West, who recently elicited controversy through his relationship with the incumbent president of the United States…
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Karolina Wojtas

Polish artist Karolina Wojtas doubtless has a lot of fun creating her photographs and installations. This usually seems inconsistent with the depth of thought her photographs suggest. Even so, this is exactly what her photographs are: a fluid mix of various kinds of humor, bizarre elements, practical jokes, children’s jokes, and bullying…
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#37 uneven ground — Profiles
Alžběta Bačíková

While Alžběta Bačíková’s experimental approach to documentary puts the transparency of the filmic medium in parenthesis, this self-reflexive attitude does not operate at the expense of creating an empathic relation between artist and protagonist, subject and viewer…
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Sidsel Meineche Hansen

One hot summer day, I happened to reach for H. G. Wells’s 1923 novel Men Like Gods. In it, Wells presents his idea of the world of Utopia. People here are precisely carved castings of ancient deities representing the ideal potential development of our society at some point millenia in the future…
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- ––– Profiles
- Míla Preslová
- Melissa Moore
- Soody Sharifi
- Woo Back
- E-J major
- ––– Theory
- Contemporary staged photography in Slovakia
- ––– Events
- The month of photography in Krakow 2006
- Fotofest 2006 in Houston
- Arles 2006
- ––– Reviews
- Clare Grafik - curator at Photographers' gallery, London
- Dušan Šimánek
- Eastern block
- Scalo books
- Industria as seen by Vaclav Jirasek
- Can photography capture our time in images?
- Festival Streit
- Franz Fiedler up to date
- Tichy has finally arrived in the czech lands
- Stepan Grygar's recapitulation
- On the edge of light
- The academic history of czech photography
- ––– History
- An orderly bohemian Ivo Přeček
- A farewell to Jan Lukas
- Old productions...
- Clementis' hat
- From pictorialism to staged photography
- ––– Portfolios
- Veronika Bromová
- Peter Finnemore
- Naglaa Walker
- Václav Zykmund
- Milena Dopitová
- ––– Tendencies
- Jiři Franta
- Daniela Dostálková
- Jan Kadlec
- Jan Šalda
- Linda Urbánková
- Petra Pětiletá
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