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Distributed for Karolinum Press, Charles University

Pavel Dias, Photographs 1956-2015

Pavel Dias’s work forms one of the touchstones of Czech journalistic and documentary photography. Working at a time when the stiffness of form and content called for by Soviet ideology was giving way to photography capturing people and real life, Dias was one of the main representatives in the country of classical humanist photography, an approach that characterizes his work to this day. This overview of his work, containing nearly 180 documentary and art photographs, demonstrates how, despite the transformations going on around him, again and again Dias returns to his original humanistic motto: to explain humankind to itself, to see life in everything. Commentary text is presented in Czech and English, and this volume includes an interview with the author by renowned Czech journalist Karel Hvíždala.

258 pages | 180 halftones | 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 | © 2015

Art: Photography


Table of Contents

Filip Láb
The Photography of Pavel Dias

Photography 1956-2001

Karel Hvížd'ala
The Depths of Memory Pavel Dias

Documents 

Biographical details

Appendices

Index

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