Antonín Kratochvíl – David Bowie, Looking for the Light
#1 min Josef Moucha
9. 5. 2023
The creative meeting was initiated by Detour Magazine in 1997 in New York. The portrait series followed the release of Bowie's Earthling album but the images go far beyond the original purpose. These studies are informal to the point of iconic. The subtitle of the publication, Looking for the Light, is also the title of an essay by Michael Persson, captivatingly evoking the relaxed mood of a one-off photo session. The second text was contributed by Pavlína Vogelová. In addition to the brilliant reproductions, the key to the bibliophilic experience is the design by the publishing team of Michal and Honza Zachariáš.
Antonín Kratochvíl. David Bowie. Looking for the Light. Praha: Atelijèur Půda, 2022. ISBN 978-80-11-01898-6.
Josef Moucha
#4 min Josef Moucha
Flashes of old memories
“Bohdan Holomíček, an artist of life: continuous action, outputs while you wait.” This was the conclusion of my recommendation, written six years ago, to the Association of Professional Photographers of the Czech Republic, which then indeed proceeded to decorate Holomíček with the title of Personality of Czech Photography for his long-standing contribution to the field.
#4 min Josef Moucha, Libuše Jarcovjáková
Notes From Libuše Jarcovjáková
The Czech Design Academy has inducted Libuše Jarcovjáková (b. 1952) into its Hall of Fame for her lasting cultural impact just as cinemas are screening the photographer’s memoirs I’m Not Everything I Want to Be and the National Gallery Prague is celebrating the success of her retrospective.
#9 min Josef Moucha
On Authorship
I don’t need a theme… I am a theme! – that, in short, is the shift that is making its way across social media (and not exclusively, either) where quantity manifests as a practically riveting movement. Never before has the field of photography existed with any semblance of the massiveness of contemporary practice – power and incisiveness contained in a message of non-negligible quality, however, remains just as rare as ever.
#1 min Josef Moucha
Mariusz Forecki – Kurz / Ewolucja imperium 1988-2022 (Dust / The Evolution of the Empire)
#1 min Josef Moucha
Josef Šnobl – Praga Obscura
#1 min Josef Moucha, Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka – Deníky (Diaries)
#1 min Josef Moucha, Marie Tomanová
Marie Tomanova – It Was Once My Universe
#2 min Josef Moucha, Markéta Luskačová
Testimony of Markéta Luskačová
“People must fight against the evil they feel equal to at that moment,” said the dying Jan Palach. He awakened the conscience of his fellow citizens in January 1969 – by self-immolation. Markéta Luskačová's photographs show the funeral procession through the centre of Prague as a demonstration of resistance to the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.