Vladimír Birgus, Jan Mlčoch: Czech Photography of the 20th Century

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Publikace: Czech Photography of the 20th Century - Vladimír Birgus;Jan Mlčoch. Czech Photography of the 20th Century, published simultaneously in Czech and English versions, is the first book to present the main trends, figures, and works of Czech photography from the beginning to the end of the last century to such a large extent. Its 517 plates include not only the most important, well-known photographs and photomontages, but also works that have long been forgotten or are published for the first time. The book is arranged in seventeen chapters, supplemented with chronologies of the most important events in twentieth-century Czech photography and history. E-PHOTO evaluated the book as THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PHOTOGRAPHY SOURCES IN 2010-2011. Publikace: Czech Photography of the 20th Century - Vladimír Birgus;Jan Mlčoch. It was not so long ago that one would have been hard pressed to find a single Czech name in most western European or American books on the history of photography. Today, things are very different: photographers like Josef Sudek, Frantisek Drtikol, Jaromir Funke, Josef Koudelka, Jan Saudek and Antonin Kratochvil enjoy international acclaim, and as Czechoslovakia emerged from over half-century of totalitarian rule, the rest of the world was astounded to discover that such a small nation could boast ...