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The story is simple. We follow the protagonist, natural light, in three chapters, as it slowly unveils and deglamourizes. In the first chapter, protruding slants of light are unravelling miniscule details and creating mystical, dream-like images. We could be anywhere. Then, Lumen takes us into the tangible, but is entirely subordinate to geometry. Only in the third chapter is the exhausted body of a former maternity hospital illuminated, the walls stripped off to recognition. It is unforgiving, unmasking the misery, but bringing hope, light and warmth at the same time. Renata Štebih, art historian Author: Nataša Segulin Text: Renata Štebih, Andrej Medved Design: Tomato Košir Publisher: Galerija Fotografija Dimenziones: 28 x 28 cm, 96 pages Hard cover, First Edition Year: 2019 ISBN: 9789619455210 -
31 portraits of German-speaking writers - Handke, Haderlap, Mayröcker, Köhlmeier, Röggla, Menasse and others. Lipuš's "scratches" describe and label the portrayed and their literary work. The multi-layered and time-consuming photographic process of the work thickens the photograph and surpasses mere documentary footage. “Photographing is an attempt to deal with the medium of photography itself and its possibilities. In my opinion, no other artistic medium offers this breadth of different aesthetic and content-related possibilities. I advocate a more specific approach to artistic photography and think that photo art should simply deal with aesthetics.” (M. Lipuš) Author: Marko LIpuš Publisher: Marko Lipuš, Wieser Verlag Year: 2008 Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1000 copies Language: English, German, Slovene, Italian ISBN: 978-3-85129-803-1 -
The photobook, entitled Babica (Grandmother) showcases the recent photographic project of photographer Marko Lipuš who set out with his camera to trace the footsteps of his grandmother. This Carinthian Slovenian was deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and murdered there in 1945 by the Nazis. In four chapters, Lipuš visually explores the surfaces of the physical structures at the former concentration camp’s premises. He is interested in objects of everyday life in the camp and in the place of the crime itself. Authors: Sabine Arend, Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, Margit Zuckriegl Publisher: Residenz Verlag Year: 2016 Hardback, 120 pages Language: German, English ISBN: 978-3-7017-3387-3 -
“Wahr genommen” is the title of Branko Lenart’s book, which summarizes his 25-year photographic oeuvre and is divided into various periods in a way suggestive of methodical thought. Lenart´s pun brings perception into proximity with truth and alludes to an aesthetic debate that has been of relevance to photography, on the question whether a technology capable of reproducing reality in even the most minute detail can also produce art with a claim to truthfulness. "Wahr genommen" - a pun involving the double meaning of "perceived" and "accepted as true". Author: Branko Lenart Editor: Kurt Kaindl Year: 1991 Hardcover, 176 pages Edition Fotohof Language: english, german Dimensions: 28 x 25 cm ISBN: 3-7013-0817-9 -
The works of Branko Lenart, which are summarized in this book, date from 1975 to 2012. Much of this is known from other compilations and other contexts, has suddenly new titles and thus brings up to date content levels. The "HAND:WORK" is highly conceptual, but transports a certain meta-level through represented persons, topographies, texts and the memory of their original meaning, creating a whole new whole. Author: Branko Lenart Publisher: Edition Keiper Year: 2018 Hardcover, 120 pages Language: German, English Dimensions: 24,5×30cm ISBN: 978-3-903144-54-5 -
The Styrians series of photographs show everyday scenes from rural lives of ordinary local people, depicting their poverty and unenviable social status. The series draws a covert comparison to the new prospects and possibilities of the 1970s by showing the underdeveloped rural areas in contrast to the accelerated development of urban areas. -
The author's work monumentally develops the genre of nude and attracts attention in the company of works by Drtikol, Saudek or Mapplethorp. Židlický deliberately violated the rules of classical photography on the inviolability of the negative. His work surprises with its distinctive visuals. The quality of Ator's work is evidenced by the representation in the collections of the Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum Ludwig, Cologne and others.
Author of photographs: Vladimir Židlicky Editors: Josef Moucha, David Židlicky Authors of text: Josef Moucha, Vladimir Židlicky Year of release: 2015 Hardcover, 239 pages Language: english, czech ISBN: 978-80-905608-3-3 -
Rudolf Sikora is one of the most important conceptual artist in Slovakia. The book is divided into several logical units being dominated by the reproduction of works of authors who are listed chronologically. The harmony of the gallery sometimes are break with texts by curators, which also form the bulkheads in the book. Reproductions are designed individually, and each double-page is made with the same principles. However, none of the facing pages are similarly. The whole book is used two columns layout that varies with nuances. The book cover is a strip with photography that overlaps exactly two lines of text on the case. Overwrap, therefore, gives us a free hand in the creation of another visual book. Author: Rudolf Sikora Editor: Katarina Bajcurova Year: 2016 Hardcover, 328 pages Second extended edition Language: english, slovak Dimensions: 28 x 23 cm ISBN: 978-80-972583-0-6 -
…The images of neglect and the attributes of industrial civilisation, the pictures of the core of the first five-year plan reveal to me something else, a time which has entered the memory. And which can only be reached through dreams or art. I can see Trbovlje as the destination of all expeditions, as the constant flow of light, a Trbovlje which to us seemed endlessly vast and limitless. A Trbovlje without the feeling of claustrophobia, a Trbovlje existing in the sky of our childhood. A Trbovlje one cannot imagine featuring in the title of a novel – A Black Valley – but rather in another title – How Green Was My Valley. And this strong and clear vision is ensured by Živkovič’s photographs, with great persuasion reminding me of the verse I recently came across. I do not remember the name of the poet. The verse goes something like this: “Whoever has not smeared himself with mud / Cannot hope to reach the sky.” (Uroš Zupan)
Author: Antonio Živkovič Publisher: Self-published Year: 1999 Softcover, 30 pages 800 copies Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 30 x 24 cm ISBN: 961-6302-41-8 -
Živkovič grew up in the industrial town of Trbovlje, the centre of the mining industry in Slovenia, which significantly influenced his artistic endeavours. In his work h focuses on capturing places, stories, and motifs related to industrial towns. His oeuvre is characterised by poetic documentation of abandoned industrial landscapes. Author: Antonio Živkovič Publisher: Mestna galerija Ljubljana Year: 2009 Softcover, 104 pages 500 copies Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 24 x 24 cm ISBN: 978-961-6587-61-7 -
The book Trees ('Drevesa in Slovene) is entirely dedicated to the visual and poetical presentation of the trees and forests. Photographs of Gregor Radonjič are combined with the poetry of Ivo Svetina. The book also includes an introductory essay on the significance of trees for human civilization throughout history and their depiction and symbolism in the art of photography written by the author Gregor Radonjič (all texts in Slovene language). Author: Gregor Radonjič Poetry: Ivo Svetina Publisher: Umco d..d, Ljubljana Year: 2020 Hard cover, 150 pages Edition: 500 Language: Slovene Dimensions: 30 x 20 cm ISBN: 978-961-7050-70-7 -
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... Publisher: Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography Year: 2013 Paperback, 130 pages Dimensions: 25 x 20 cm Language: English
