It Was Once My Universe

#1 min Josef Moucha

Mariusz Forecki. Kurz / Ewolucja imperium 1988–2022. (Dust / The Evolution of the Empire) Poznań: Pix.house, 2022. ISBN 978-83-961216-6-0.

#1 min Josef Moucha

Josef Šnobl. Praga Obscura. Erinnerungen an eine graue Stadt 1970–1979 / 1990–2005. (Praga Obscura. Memories of a Gray City 1970–1979 / 1990–2005) Köln: Emons Verlag, 2022. ISBN 978-3-7408-1662-9.

#1 min Josef Moucha

Antonín Kratochvíl. David Bowie. Looking for the Light. Praha: Atelijèur Půda, 2022. ISBN 978-80-11-01898-6.

#1 min Josef Moucha

Josef Koudelka. Deníky. (Diaries) Praha: Torst, 2021. ISBN 978-80-7215-690-0.

#4 min Josef Moucha

“People must fight against the evil they feel equal to at that moment,” said the dying Jan Palach. He awakened the conscience of his fellow citizens in January 1969 – by self-immolation. Markéta Luskačová's photographs show the funeral procession through the centre of Prague as a demonstration of resistance to the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.

#4 min Josef Moucha

In the spring of 2018, the Association of Professional Photographers of the Czech Republic named Libuše Jarcovjáková (born 1952) personality of the year.

#5 min Josef Moucha

Over the course of several years, Fotograf magazine has had to bid a final farewell to the three noteworthy photographers who produced – and for decades supplemented – the extremely expansive portrait collection entitled Czech People. Fotograf published a review of the monograph on Ivan Lutterer (1954–2001) in Issue No. 24, a report about the first posthumous exhibition of the works of Jiří Poláček (1946–2016) in Issue 29, and the obituary of Jan Malý (1954–2017) in the subsequent issue.

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Jan Malý, a Praguer by birth and in death (16. 4. 1954 – 5. 4. 2017), departed this life as the last of a trio of friends who in 1980 revived the once popular photographic genre, the portrait of the whole body. With the passing of Jiří Poláček (1946–2016), Ivan Lutterer (1954–2001) and Jan Malý, his obituary also marks a farewell to the Český člověk (Czech Human) project.  The abovementioned photographers belonged to the generation that finished their studies at the Department of Photography, The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, in the 1970s. They visited many villages and towns to expose and capture quite diverse strata of the society. "When I invite someone to the studio, they get ready for it," Malý said, explaining the advantages of their field studio, "while in the street, they are as they are". Everyone who wanted to be photographed got a Polaroid picture; the photographers kept the negatives. They developed them using the collodion wet plate process to create and exhibit classic enlargements. From more than five thousand photographs, they published a telling selection in Český člověk, 1997, edited by Jaroslav Bárta.