Bohdan Holomíček

Get it

The now-legendary photographer Bohdan Holomícek--born in 1943--has traveled throughout the Czech Republic for several years, recording a never-ending series of moments. In doing this, however, he is not so much seeking to act as a documentarian or photojournalist as he is seeking to assemble countless ordinary moments into something extraordinary, something as large as--not larger than--life. In the figure of Holomícek a rare unity of life and art is achieved. He is a highly individual chronicler of more than thirty years of life in the Czech region, and the personal and transcendental stamp he puts into his work communicates itself across boundaries of nation and ethnicity. This retrospective look at Holomícek's work contains beautiful duotone reproductions of the artist's images and serves as a splendid introduction to his oeuvre. … full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author

Antonín Dufek, 1943-2023

Other Authors

Bohdan Holomíček, 1943-
Derek Paton, 1958-

Document Type

Books

Physical Description

123 s. : 74 il.

Published

Praha : Torst, 2000

Edition

1. ed.

Series

FotoTorst

Subjects

Holomíček, Bohdan, > 1943-

fotografové > Česko > 20. století > Česko > 20. století

obrazové publikace

Bibliography

Obsahuje poznámky, bibliografii, přehledy

ISBN

80-7215-112-6

Suggest for digitization

It is possible to request digitization of this document from another library's collection:

• Moravian Library in Brno