fb pixcode

PHOTOGRAPHY SURVEYS | COLLECTIONS | MOVEMENTS | EXHIBITIONS

PUBLISHER
Kant

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 25 color / 157 duotone.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2011 p. 102   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9788074370052 TRADE
List Price: $45.00 CAD $60.00

AVAILABILITY
In stock

TERRITORY
NA LA ASIA AU/NZ AFR

THE FALL 2024 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG

Artbook | D.A.P. Catalog Cover Link
Preview our FALL 2024 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.
  

KANT

Once Upon a Time in the East

Czechs through the Eyes of Photographers, 1948-1989

Edited by Vladimír Birgus, Tomá? Pospech.

Drawn from a broad range of photography, from works by famed photographers to anonymous images, Once Upon a Time in the East offers a portrait of Czechoslovakia across the 20th century, registering its dramatic changes of regime as well as more intimate scenes of daily life. Communist demonstrations and festivals are documented alongside domestic scenes in pubs and cottages. Among the historic moments recorded in this volume are the blasting of the Stalin monument in Prague in 1962 (taken by an unknown photographer); Milon Novotny's photographs of the funeral parade of Jan Palach in 1969; and an incredible series of surveillance photographs taken by an unidentified member of the Czech secret police, which furtively documents equally furtive assignations on the streets of Prague. Works by Ivo Gil, Josef Koudelka, Jindrich Streit, Miroslav Tichy, Jiri Toman and many others are also included.
Once Upon a Time in the East

in stock  $45.00


Free Shipping

UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.
FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS

FROM THE BOOK
"As the forty-one years of single-party rule recedes increasingly farther into the past, the perception of one of the saddest chapters in Czech history changes. More and more young people have not experienced it, and for older people the period is becoming the background of the fond memories of their youth. This change in the perception of the Communist era is perhaps best illustrated by the changes in the perception of Fred Kramer's fashion photograph of the five women models in front of the Sjezdový palác in Prague (on the cover of the present volume). Whereas twenty years ago, probably most people here would have considered it, in comparison with the superb contemporaneous fashion photographs by Richard Avedon or Irving Penn, to be totalitarian Kitsch, today, it exudes the charm of the unwanted, standing as a gentle reminder of what things looked like in Czechoslovakia, once upon a time in the East."

Vladimír Birgus and Tomáš Pospěch, excerpted from Once Upon a Time in the East.

OF RELATED INTEREST

Promises of the Past

PROMISES OF THE PAST

JRP|Ringier

ISBN: 9783037640999
USD $65.00
| CAD $87 UK £ 35

Pub Date: 8/31/2010
Active | Out of stock


Josef Koudelka: Invasion 68

JOSEF KOUDELKA: INVASION 68

Aperture

ISBN: 9781597110686
USD $60.00
| CAD $70

Pub Date: 8/1/2008
No longer our product | Not Available


FORTHCOMING AND NEW: PHOTOGRAPHY

Night Fever: Film and Photography After Dark

NIGHT FEVER: FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY AFTER DARK

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783753305691
USD $49.95
| CAD $73

Pub Date: 7/2/2024
Active | In stock


Ute Eskildsen & Timm Rautert: Leipzig 1972

UTE ESKILDSEN & TIMM RAUTERT: LEIPZIG 1972

Steidl

ISBN: 9783969992739
USD $75.00
| CAD $115

Pub Date: 12/31/2024
Forthcoming


George Saunders & Joshua Lutz: Orange Blossom Trail

GEORGE SAUNDERS & JOSHUA LUTZ: ORANGE BLOSSOM TRAIL

Image Text Ithaca Press

ISBN: 9781733497152
USD $40.00
| CAD $62 UK £ 35

Pub Date: 10/15/2024
Active | In stock


Will Write Soon

WILL WRITE SOON

Archive of Modern Conflict/Gwinzegal

ISBN: 9791094060452
USD $35.00
| CAD $52 UK £ 30

Pub Date: 9/3/2024
Active | In stock


Peter Hujar Behind the Camera and in the Darkroom

PETER HUJAR BEHIND THE CAMERA AND IN THE DARKROOM

BookCrave Books

ISBN: 9798218371463
USD $50.00
| CAD $71 UK £ 45

Pub Date: 10/8/2024
Active | Out of stock


The Alhambra Lions

THE ALHAMBRA LIONS

La Fábrica

ISBN: 9788410024106
USD $42.00
| CAD $62 UK £ 36

Pub Date: 3/18/2025
Forthcoming


Photo Against the Machine

PHOTO AGAINST THE MACHINE

JBE Books

ISBN: 9782365680912
USD $25.00
| CAD $35

Pub Date: 11/19/2024
Forthcoming


Cinema Cairo Palace

CINEMA CAIRO PALACE

Kaph Books

ISBN: 9786148035630
USD $60.00
| CAD $87.5

Pub Date: 12/17/2024
Forthcoming


Reframing Photography

REFRAMING PHOTOGRAPHY

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

ISBN: 9780878468980
USD $50.00
| CAD $71 UK £ 45

Pub Date: 11/26/2024
Forthcoming


Peter Pfrunder, Iwan Schumacher: Couples

PETER PFRUNDER, IWAN SCHUMACHER: COUPLES

Edition Patrick Frey

ISBN: 9783907236697
USD $60.00
| CAD $87.5

Pub Date: 12/17/2024
Forthcoming


Concentric Circles

CONCENTRIC CIRCLES

Steidl

ISBN: 9783969993750
USD $35.00
| CAD $52

Pub Date: 12/31/2024
Forthcoming


Ken Narula and Rammy Narula: Lost and Found

KEN NARULA AND RAMMY NARULA: LOST AND FOUND

Steidl

ISBN: 9783969993354
USD $45.00
| CAD $65

Pub Date: 12/31/2024
Forthcoming