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The photographer - chronicler of the beginning of the century Katalog je spremljal razstavo v Slovenskem etnografskem muzeju leta 2015, ki je predstavlila vpogled v življenje in delo enega izmed najpomembnejših amaterskih fotografov z začetka 20. stoletja – Frana Vesela. S fotografijo se ukvarjal celo življenje in ustvaril motivno bogat in raznolik opus fotografij, ki so danes vključene v zbirke večih ustanov. Izbor predstavljenih avtorjevih originalnih fotografij, je na razstavi ponujdil vpogled v dela njegove ohranjene fotografske zapuščine, katere rdeča nit je mesto Ljubljana in njeni prebivalci. Author of photographs: Fran Vesel Texts: Lara Štrumelj, Marijan Rupert Publisher: MGL Year: 1999 paperback, 55 pages Print run: 600 Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 22 x 27 cm ISBN: 961- 206-021-5 -
Colour and Coloured Photography and Colour Prints on Slovenian Territory from its Beginnings until 1945. Author: Primož Lampič (MAO) Texts: Matevž Čelik, Primož Lampič Publisher: Muzej za arhitekturo in oblikovanje, Ljubljana Year: 2015 Hardcover, 287 pages Print run: 400 Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 23 x 29 cm ISBN: 978-961-6669-33-7 -
This catalog accompanied the exhibition at the Museum Modern Art in Ljubljana in 2010. For Gojmir Anton Kos, photography was an amateur interest that he pursued from the late 1920s until the end of his life, most intensively in the 1930s. Initially he used a glass plate camera, and from the early 1930s onward a Leica. Most of his surviving photographic oeuvre thus consists of black-and-white Leica shots; there are also some color slides from the 1960s. Kos initially photographed his paintings and some exhibitions in which he participated, as well as interiors outfitted with furniture of his own design. The latter stand out for their visual refinement and were given a special place in the exhibition, as they are rare visual documents of Kos' work in the field of interior design. Texts: Lara Štrumej, Stojan Kerbler Foreword: Zdenka Badovinac Publisher: Moderna galerija, Ljubljana Year: 2010 Language: English, Slovene softback, 96 pages Dimensions: 27 x 22 cm -
Lara Štrumej / Geometry of Solitude: Some Modernist Works From the National Photography Collection at Moderna Galerija Among the numerous original languages employed by the individual photographers whose work features in Moderna galerija's photography collection, our attention was drawn to shots that reflect the creative responses of photographers either to an order existing in the external phenomenal world or to individual relationships arising in the urban world that establish a new conceptual order in created images when photographically transposed. The works featured in the catalogue were not created at one time — they span a period from the mid-1950s to the late 20th century. But apart from iconographic similarities and an austere narrative that stems from the modernist desire of the artists to retreat from noisy everyday life to the aesthetics of the silence of photographic images, they are marked by an exploration of the semantic issues of photography as a self-sufficient artistic entity. In every one of these images, the dialogue with the visible world is in its own special way removed from the dynamics of social life and takes place with respect to space and the state of things within this space. The perceived situations where man is present only through his absence are presented in ways not always new, since the artists built on the achievements of New Objectivity, a period that is regarded as the beginning of Slovene modernist photography. Text: Lara Štrumej Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art Language: Slovene, English Year: 2002 softback, 54 pages Dimensions: 27 x 22 cm -
‘Until Death Do Us Part’ series is the result of two-year photographic project on weddings in Europe, with an accent on cross-cultural couples and certain cultural meanderings, the product of the constant shifts of borders, migrations, globalisation and acculturation. The project represents a visual investigation of the phenomenon of the wedding ceremony and party as one of the crucial anthropological genres, which has for thousands of years played a pivotal role in the ritual life of the human race. In essence, this tradition has remained largely unchanged, despite newly emerging trends and cultural, racial or gender traversing, and in spite of the fact that marriage as an institution is no longer regarded as something so necessarily desirable. Photographs from this series examine the phenomenon of marriage and of wedding ceremony across Europe, often represented as a glamorous pagan ritual paying great attention towards certain fragments of national tradition and folklore of newlyweds and their families. Despite her straight documentary approach and anthropological aims Katarina Radović captures incidental and secondary motifs that often produce metaphysically stressed images with ability to confuse the perception of the seen. Author: Katarina Radović Texts: Jim Casper, Nebojša Pajkić Publisher: Katarina Radovič Year: 2011 hardcopy Print run: 500 copies Print: Publikum, Beograd Language: english, serbian Dimensions: 28,5 x 24,5 cm ISBN: 978-86-915079-0-9 -
25 years after the end of the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somnambulism discusses the importance of culture and urban fabric in the construction-destruction-reconstruction of the country. In four different stages, the reader will experience a metaphorical wandering of night and day walking between the old and new infrastructures, buildings and monuments. Firstly, in a once-upon-a-time journey between Sarajevo and Belgrade, historical events unfold the Yugoslav intercultural nation born after the World War II. Then, landscapes still offended by the tragedy of the war and of the urbicide, reveal the collective amnesia of the 1992–1995 conflict. In the last two stages, the dualism between division and unity betoken the contemporary terrain of Bosnia and Herzegovina, marked both by the visible presence of religious monuments and by landscapes which uprise to avoid the oblivion of the multicultural common past. With her photographs, Lara Ciarabellini is able to show the change in the web of intertwining layers of the Yugoslav and Bosnian collective memory in the last decades, adding a new and personal point of view in the analysis of the aftermath of the war. Poems, texts, and archival pictures accompany her and reader's journey. Author: Lara Ciarabellini Texts: Š.Daupović Fiko, C. Elia, E. Forto, A Klemenčić, P. Lowe, S. Milio, T. Novosel, D. Pora Porović, F. Rolandi Publisher: Kehrer Year: 2015 Hardcopy Language: english Dimensions: 28 x 30 cm ISBN:978-3-86828-622-9 -
In the Gastropoda project artist deals with the “metabolism of images” inspired by the accidental co-authorship of snails, which ate the mail invitations to exhibition openings in Fontcuberta’s home mailbox. It is still possible, however, to discern the shapes of the original images in the selected “metabolised” works. Author: Joan Fontcuberta Texst: Joan Fontcuberta Publisher: La Fabrica Year: 2015 Softcover, 26 pages Language: english, spanish Dimensiones: 30 x 40 cm ISBN: 9788415691914 -
High quality poster showcasing the motif from the Visitors (2004) series of photographs. Authors: Goran Bertok Publisher: self-published & Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography Year: 2015 Poster, Offset print Size: 48 x 68 cm, ed. 500 -
High quality poster showcasing the motif from the photograph, entitled Prometheus (1989). Authors: Goran Bertok Publisher: self-published & Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography Year: 2015 Poster, Offset print Size: 48 x 68 cm, ed. 500 -
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In his limited photographic monograph entitled The Present, Peter Koštrun captures the quiet atmosphere of the countryside in the immediate vicinity of his home. Pastoral motifs are composed in a way of intriguing poetry that is - wrapped in a misty veil of gently lit countryside - receptive to mystical wanderings and silent contemplation. The photo book is available only in edition of 20! Author of photographs: Peter Koštrun Author of text: Dejan Sluga Publisher: self-published Year: 2013 Hardcover, 44 pages Dimensions: 33 x 33 cm Language: english, sloveneFOR ORDERS FROM OUTSIDE OF SLOVENIA PLEASE SEND US EMAIL ON info@photon.si
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Branko Cvetkovic with his photographic documentary of spatial reality entitled En Face maintains a standard of rigorous objectivity in his depictions which brings added value to his photography. His work is strictly systematic, using framing procedure which invariably starts from the same focal point, thus as a rule, his works are symmetrical. Cvetkovic finds formal principles of composition of primary importance, be it through constructive or deconstructive logic. He is particularly interested in unveiling the symbolic meaning behind the buildings in relation to their urban history, whilst the selection of motifs reflects his preoccupation with issues of urban architecture. Author: Branko Cvetkovič Texts: Peter Gulič, Boris Gorupič Editor: Branko Cvetkovič Year: 2005 Hardcopy, 40 pages 300 copies Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 32 x 29 cm ISBN: 961-236-952-6 -
Neo-avant-garde Trends in Hungarian Art Photography, 1965-1984 has been published with the support of Art+Text Budapest. The book, like its Hungarian version published in 2007, presents some 400 works of art by 32 Hungarian artists of the 1960s, 1970s and the early 1980s. It undertakes to collect the greatest photographers of this vibrant and fruitful era from Géza Perneczky to Tibor Hajas and János Vető. Among the presented artists we can find photographers who refused the anachronistic aesthetics of the official photography, and artists who used the camera accepting the conceptual approach of the period. Author: Sándor Szilágyi Foreword: Sarah Morthland Publisher: Art + Text Budapest Year: 2017 Hardcover, 377 pages Language: english (first english edition) Dimensions: 30 x 24 cm ISBN: 978-963-12-8293-1 -
The Last Gaze / Post-Mortem Portrait in Contemporary Photography showcases the international selection of photographers and artists who in their artistic endeavour depict the deceased. By focusing on the dead body they question both their own perception as well as socially (un)acceptable notions regarding the concepts, meanings and representations of death in contemporary western society. Authors: AES+F, Goran Bertok, Marloes van Doorn, Elizabeth Heyert, Rudolf Schäfer, Walter Schels, Jeffrey Silverthorne Text: Jasna Jernejšek Publisher: Photon -- Centre for Contemporary Photography Year: 2016 Softcover, 44 pages Language: english, slovene Edition: 200 Dimension: 16 x 25 cm ISBN: 978-961-92744-5-3 -
Jure Kastelic in Pretty Loops addresses the phenomena of contemporary communication tools and technologies, and focus on visual media from the point of view of interaction with its users. Therefore he commonly refers to ambivalence of an image (a photograph), experiments with manipulating (media) contents, and explores impact of overabundance of information on humans. Author: Jure Kastelic Text: Miha Colner Publisher: Božidar Jakac Gallery in collaboration with Photon Association Year: 2016 Softcover, 32 pages Print: R Tisk Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 16 x 21 cm Edition: 400 -
The photo book consists of three leaflets in a homemade cardboard box. There are three different covers with three different stickers. Each leaflet contains one of the series from the triptych Movements: Twelve positions of the hands on a cup of tea when you feel tired and annoyed, Twelve movements of the feet on a wall when you feel bored and alone and Twelve placements of the fingers on a lock of hair when you feel small and unsure. Limited edition of 200, hand numbered. Author: Špela Škulj Design: Špela Škulj Publisher: Self published, In co-production with Photon - Center za sodobno fotografijo Year: 2016 Print: Collegium Graphicum Language: english Dimensions: 14 x 12 cm ISBN: 978-961-283-770-9 -
The photographs from the Infertile Grounds series are marked by trauma, historical events and human experience. Author: Sandra Vitaljić Publisher: Eikon Studio Foreword: Svetlana Slapšak Year: 2012 Hardcover, 56 pages Language: english, croatian Dimensions: 25 x 23 cm ISBN: 978-953-57251-2-1 -
“From a distance” the photographer’s eye has been eager to come closer to the cities and meet their people. However, he got closer to the town by visiting his city of the dead. Author: Hassan Abdelghani Publisher: Eikon Studio Foreword: Paola Orlić Year: 2012 Hardcover, 56 pages Language: english, croatian Dimenzije: 25 x 23 cm ISBN: 978-953-57251-0-7 -
Celija’s nudes are black and white compositions in which the female body is the primary and only focus of interest; however, the body is not photographed as an object just for its sake: by use of photographic procedures Celija stirs the outlines of female bodies so that they wonderfully come to life. Author: Đani Celia Publisher: Eikon Studio Foreword: Year: 2012 Hardcover, 56 pages Language: english, croatian Dimensions: 25 x 23 cm ISBN: 978-953-57251 -
This woman Jelena, this Butterfly Junkie, with connected earlobes, has the ability to touch the other side and humbly return to us with windows into that space.Author: Jelena Vukotić Publisher: Eikon Studio Foreword: Year: 2012 Hardcover, 56 pages Language: english, croatian Dimensions: 25 x 23 cm ISBN: 978-953-57251 -
The monograph, entitled Wonderland showcases the overview of photographic projects of Darije Petković who in his works addresses the phenomena of national identity in the time of globalisation, of economic transition and of ongoing changes in recent history based on a case study of Croatia. Author: Darije Petković Text: Zvonko Maković Publisher: ADU, Zagreb Year: 2015 Hardcover, 127 pages Dimensions: 20 x 25 cm Edition: 250 Language: croatian, english ISBN: 978-953-97568-5-5 -
Noosphere term refers to the “realm of human thought. ” Intelligent Coating “around the globe, covering all the intellectual processes. Gyula Fodor does not follow the theological reference of the term, nor one that leads to virtual reality. Tries to create a new artistic reference for “noosphere”. This is the euphoria that promotes life and is characterized by “the liberty of migrant “and the pain that remains due to the loss. Author: Gyula Fodor Text: Linda Klösel, Marc Gisbourne Publisher: Salamon Verlag Year: 2007 Hardcopy, 105 pages Print: Repro 12, Vienna Language: english, German Dimensions: 28 x 24 cm ISBN: 978-963-06-2627-9 -
The beginning of the joint venture of diSTRUKTURA is marked by the Face to Face series of photographs as well as with the photograph, entitled Missing Hill I from 2005. The picture showcases the artists with their backs turned against the viewer while gazing in the devastated landscape in the vicinity of closed and deserted copper mine in Majdanpek, Serbia. This work characterised further creative production of the couple who focused on questioning extended notions of nature nowadays and on redefining landscape genre in the period after the industrial, technological and digital revolutions. Since then diSTRUKTURA has been consistently developing its art works across different artistic media, from photography and painting, to drawing, video and installation. This book is therefore the first extensive monographic publication where all the projects from the past ten years are documented, inventoried and analysed: Face to Face, Third Landscape, Cities: Psychogeographic Experiments, We are Living in a Beautiful wOURld, Mitteleuropäische Landschaft, Not so Far Away and The Best of Leisure. Author: diStruktura Text: Miha Colner, Aleksandra Estela Bjelica Mladenović, Catherine Hemelryk, Miroslav Karić, Sanja Kojić Mladenov, Jelena Krivokapić, Astrid Kury, Katarina Mitrović/Saša Janjić, Mirjana Peitler, Una Popović, Jelena Stojanović, Nikola Šuica, Predrag Terzić, Milanka Todić Publisher: ProArtOrg Year: 2015 Hardcover, 151 pages Print: Standard 2, Belgrade Language: english, serbian Dimensions: 23 x 28 cm ISBN: 978-86-80146-03-4 -
Zipped Worlds is the exhibition catalogue of the project which aims to explore ways of how the photography is used nowadays and to question new concepts of public and private space. The publication contains two essays and a display of 10 participating artists and artist groups. Authors: Giuliana Carbi, Dejan Sluga Publisher: Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography Year: 2015 Paperback, 44 pages Edition: 300 copies Dimensions: 20 x 20 cm Language: English -
Memory Lab je skupni projekt mreže Evropskega meseca fotografije, posvečen izpraševanju spomina in refleksiji zgodovine skozi umetnost. Knjiga predstavlja dela štiridesetih avtorjev, ki se posvečajo odnosu do časovno bolj ali manj oddaljenih konfliktov, ki še vedno odmevajo v današnjem javnem diskurzu. Avtorji se naslavljajo vprašanje ohranjanja spomina in zapisovanja zgodovine, ki iz tega izvira, pri tem pa običajno fotografije ne uporabljajo kot način dokumentiranja sveta na racionalen način, ampak se zanašajo na sugestivno moč fotografije. Avtorji: Eva Fisli, Leonida Kovač, Pierre Stiwer, Gabriella Uhl, Frank Wagner, etc. Založnik: European Month of Photography Leto izida: 2014 Mehka vezava, 198 strani Jezik: angleški ISBN: 978-99959-891-0-1 -
The publication Aftermath. Changing Cultural Landscape contains essays and presentation of 37 contemporary photographers from the territory of former Yugoslavia who have been active after its break-up (1991-2011). Blog of the project: aftermathsee.wordpress.com Authors: Milan Aleksić, Maurizio Bait, Miha Colner, Svetlana Slapšak, Dejan Sluga, etc. Publisher: Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography Year: 2013 130 pages Language: English ISBN: -
The book, entitled Mutations II. Moving Stills looks into the profound changes in the world, and particularly in the field of contemporary image making. It aims to pursue this line of thought on the subject of video, exploring the productive relationships that have developed between fixed and moving images and providing a sense of where contemporary art stands in Europe today. Mutations II is a common project of European Month of Photography. Authors: Jean-Luc Soret, Mathilde Roman, Mark Gisbourne Publisher: European Month of Photography Year: 2008 Hardback, 178 pages Language: English, German, French, Italian, Slovak ISBN: 978-287978074-0 -
This book is the first documentation of a young generation of Slovak photographers. After the events of the late 1980s and 90s a photography department was established at the University of Bratislava, where the trend of individualism was broadly supported and a new creativity arose after decades of oppression. To document the wide creative and experimental variety of the young artists, this comprehensive title employs four different approaches: by art critic Lucia GavulovNB, photography theorist Michaela PaštekovNB, philosopher and aesthetic Jozef Kovalčik, and photographer and teacher Filip Vančo. They all brought their different ideas and individual views to this fascinating scene. Author: Peter Ančic, Juraj Anušev, Juraj Fifik, Barbora Haviarova, Jana Ilkova... Text: Lucia Gavulova, Jozef Kovalčik, Michaela Paštekova, Filip Vančo Publisher: Slovart s.r.o. Year: 2009 Hardcover, 143 pages Print: Tlačarne BB Language: english, slovak Dimensions: 29 x 24 cm ISBN: 978-80-8085-998-5 -
The Tensionfield project gives an overview on the current condition and status of art photography in Central Europe after the developments in the 1980s and 1990s. The majority of the artist here emerged from camera club scenes in early 1980s and therefore their roots spring from local photographic traditions that shaped their sensibility for local socio-political circumstances during the transitional period; however, at the same time, they remain open to trends in world of contemporary photography and art. Authors: Max Aufischer, Sanja Kojić Mladenov, Zoran Petrovski, Dejan Sluga, etc. Publisher: Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana & CCN Cultural City Network, Graz Year: 2011 Paperback, 65 pages Dimensiones: 22 x 21 cm Language: English ISBN:
