Jitka Hanzlová: Forest

Berger, John

ISBN 10: 3865212107 / ISBN 13: 9783865212108

Published by Steidl, U.S.A., 2006

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First and only edition of Hanzlova's most sought after title. A fine clean tight copy with no markings. Oversized cloth, no dust jacket as issued. Seller Inventory # 001491

Bibliographic Details

Title: Jitka Hanzlová: Forest

Publisher: Steidl, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Photographer Jitka Hanzlov's new series, Forest, here accompanied by a John Berger essay, continues her work in and around the village where she grew up, leaving the town and its inhabitants for the forest. Her stark prints explore the Moravian woods of her youth--and all the naturally-occurring corridors, courtyards, haunted houses and gilded ponds there--as a kind of visible, perceptible "unknown" in herself and the viewer, as a dark spring, as the unfathomed depths from which we emerge. Though many of us don't often go into the forest, we know that it is there, and we know that it is critical to both the way one imagines the world--light and dark, city and country, home and unknown territory--and to the physical processes, not least the manufacture of oxygen, that keep the world going. In this respect, Hanzlov's work is once again, as it has been so directly in Female, and persistently in Rokytnik, meaningful sociopolitically as well as aesthetically.

About the Author:

Born 1958 in Nachod, Czechoslovakia, Jitka Hanzlov now lives in Essen, Germany. She studied photography at Essen University and has since worked as a photographer on her own projects. She was awarded the Otto Steinert Photography Prize in 1993 and the European Photography Prize in 1995 and was short-listed for The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize in 2000 and 2003.