Francesca Woodman – The Artist's Books
#1 min Pavel Vančát, Francesca Woodman
29. 1. 2024
The photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), who died prematurely, produced several artist's books during her years, but only one was published during her lifetime. The complete edition of all eight surviving artist's books from Mack is graphically and typographically simple yet stunning. Most of the author's publications are based on 19th-century Italian handbooks and diaries she purchased during her time in Rome, which are additionally interspersed with photographs, slides, and notes. All of this is seen here in perfect reproductions of complete double-page spreads, accurately inserted into the spine of the four-hundred-page book, including bookmarks, ribbons and fraying. The pinnacle of painstaking perfection is the nine blank double-page lined scrapbooks, yet they go far beyond the small scholarly comments between books.
Francesca Woodman, The Artist's Books. London: MACK, 2023
Pavel Vančát
#2 min Fotograf Zone
FOTOGRAF ZONE FESTIVAL 2025 – TALK TOGETHER
The fifteenth edition of the international Fotograf Zone Festival, titled TALK TOGETHER, focuses on language and interpersonal communication in its many forms. This year’s festival will be presented in a condensed ten-day format, running from 3 to 12 October 2025, and will offer audiences new perspectives on how language shapes our relationships, understanding, and conflicts.
#2 min Natalie Drtinová, Dorota Franková
Dorota Franková – Tenderness and Pain of Dorota Franková’s Portraits
In her work, Dorota Franková focuses on portraiture. While the portraits of others tend to be full of tenderness and fragility, her own are captured in exacerbated situations or via manipulated photographs that emphasise the restlessness of the mind.
#1 min Pavel Vančát, Václav Jirásek
Václav Jirásek – Infection
#1 min Pavel Vančát, Viktor Kolář
Viktor Kolař – Foto Kolář
#1 min Pavel Vančát, Witold Kanicki
Witold Kanicki – Wacław Nowak, Polaroid
#1 min Pavel Vančát, Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka – IKONAR
#11 min Pavel Vančát, Łukasz Gorczyca
Collecting imperfections – dialogue on holiday postcards from Poland
Interview: Pavel Vančát and Łukasz Gorczyca
#5 min Filip Láb, Pavel Vančát
Filip Láb – Apostle of Future Photography
Filip Láb, who died unexpectedly and prematurely in May 2021, was not only a prominent theorist and teacher of photography, but was also one of a generation of artists that dealt with the shift in political polarities and radical changes in the photographic paradigm. His relatively short but very significant creative period, tied to his collaboration with Bára Mrázková, still surprises with its innovation and precision.