Toto město je ve společné péči obyvatel / This city is under the control of its citizens

Miroslav Peterka & Bohumil Hrabal
Toto město je ve společné péči obyvatel / This city is under the control of its citizens
Photographs: Miroslav Peterka & Bohumil Hrabal
Publisher: Československý spisovatel
96 pages
Pictures: 52
Year: 1967
Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 240 x 170 mm. First edition, 1967. Gravure printing. Black & white photographs. Text in czech. Design by Oldrich Hlavsa. A few tears on dust jacket, on corners (see pictures) and a trace of adhesive to protect the jacket , inside it's very clean and reproductions well preserved. Included in The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol.1, p.222/223.
"Peterka details a familiar iconography of photographic melancholia - abstracted signs, mysterious doorways, peeling and crumbling walls, miserable-looking people on the streets, a broken mask lying by a lamp-post. With these apparent clichés, he creates an atmosphere of gloom and uncertainty, mirroring the alienated lives of modern man. Generally, Peterka`s subtle, poetic cry of despair confirms the prevailing mood in a number of books in postwar Europe, where the blighted psychological mood remained long after the conflict had ended." (Parr & Badger)















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