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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 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 -
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 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 -
“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 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 -
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 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 -
Autography, Uncanniness, Rebellion: the Photography of Božidar Dolenc This catalog accompanied the first major and comprehensive posthumous exhibition of the work of Božidar Dolenc (1950 - 2008) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova in 2021. Dolenc is one of the most prominent and widely acclaimed photographers of the second half of the 20th century in Slovenia. The exhibition was conceived around his photographic legacy, which was acquired in 2016. He was attracted to street scenes and formulated a recognizable poetics as well as the visual esthetics of the alternative culture events of the late 1970s and 1980s, of which he is now considered the main photographic witness. Author of Photographs: Božidar Dolenc Catalogue Editor: Lara štrumej Texts: Lara Štrumej, Marina Gržinić, Rok Vevar Publisher: Moderna galerija, Ljubljana Year: 2020 softcover, 110 pages Print run: 800 Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 22 x 27 cm ISBN: 978-961-206-143-2 -
This catalogue accompanied the first comprehensive overview of Božidar Jakac's photography, shown in 2014 at the Museum Modern Art in Ljubljana. Known as a printmaker, the artist sought creative outlets in new media even as a student. Giving prominence to the newly discovered photographs of his from before World War II II, the exhibition followed the chronology of photographs taken by the artist at significant stages of his life: in Prague (1922-23), Novo mesto (c. 1923), Paris (1925), Tunisia (1925), America (1929-1931) and with the partisan forces (1943-1945). It covered the first two decades of Jakac's involvement with photography, when his creative development in this medium was most intense and when he also matured as an artist and as a person. By including a number of his works in other media - drawings, prints, pastels and an oil painting - that represent the same experiential reality as the photographs, the exhibition showed that photography was indeed a new source of insight for the artist. Author of Photographs: Božidar Jakac Text: Lara Štrumelj Publisher: MG+MSUM Year: 2014 paperback, 130 pages Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 22 x 27 cm ISBN: 9789612061081 -
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Moderne galerija, Ljubljana, June 30-Sept. 25, 2005. The first wholesome view of the photographer's life and his productive, rich body of work from the sixties and seventies, which places him firmly amongst the pioneers of journalist photography in Slovenia. Author of Photographs: Leon Dolinšek Texts: mag. Lara Štrumej, Polde Bibič, Zdenka Badovinac Publisher: MG Year: 2005 paperback, 86 pages Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 22 x 27 cm ISBN: 961-206-044-4 -
Zmago Jeraj 's series of photographs on the theme of Carnival spans thirty years. The first photographs were taken by chance, merely for the artist's personal archive, with no intention of exhibiting them. Moreover, the initially opportune subject matter was not considered potentially valuable for sustained creative interest. Over time, however, the number of images of figures and scenes associated with Carnival grew and developed into a series. The majority of the shots were taken in the Slovenian town of Ptuj, known for its carnival parade and for the unique carnival figure of "kurent" and its companions. After 1984, when a carnival festival was also organized in Maribor, Jeraj began documenting events in both cities. He focused on masked figures appearing alone or isolated in a crowd of ordinarily dressed people, or on small groups of costumed figures accompanied by random companions. He was interested in homemade costumes, which were often clumsily fashioned and gave a clear indication of the person's ingenuity, skill, and finances. Although Jeraj creates his visual reality with his choice of the event and the moment of freezing it in time, his series of photographs is not without traits of reportage photography and its verism. The outskirts of the center of Ptuj with derelict industrial buildings provide a suitable setting for these images. The emphasis on the banality of the setting robs the carnival figures of their power and creates the semantic concept that prevails throughout the series Carnival Figures and aims to degrade the spectacularity of the figures in various ways. It is thus expressed only with vague allusions to the marginal significance of the costume in relation to the prosaic whole, underlining the futility of the figure's presence. Author: Zmago Jeraj Text: Milojka Kline Publisher: Umetnostna galerija Maribor Year: 1996 Hard cover, 78 pages Print run: 500 Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 30 x 21 cm -
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
