This publication presents the work of the intermedia artist and photographer Dita Pepe, who teaches creative photography at the Silesian University in Opava. It contains texts about Pepe’s photographic models, combining stylized photography with highly personal statements: the publication thus offers a penetrating psychological exploration revealing people’s motivations, life journeys, attitudes, dreams and desires. These deeply personal stories focus our attention on the authenticity and sincerity of the models. The stylization – of hair, make-up, light and space – enhances these personal stories to create a distinctive and unique means of expression which straddles the boundary between art and authentic records of reality. The rawness and sincerity of the models’ lives – combined with the visual revelation enabled by colour photography – create a compilation in which the reader/viewer can find pure, open human stories wrapped up in penetrating and revealing photographic forms.
Publication in Czech and English.
Photographs: Dita Pepe
Text: Barbora Baronová
Book adaptation: Milan Nedvěd
Photographic collaboration: Petr Hrubeš
Publication collaboration: Lukáš Hvozdecký
Translation from English: Petra Horáková
Translation from Czech: Ian Willoughby, Cóilín O´Connor
Interview: Zygmunt Bauman
Editing and proofreading: Kateřina Kadlecová, Pavla Nejedlá
Photographic retouching: Jaroslav Kocián
Colour correction: Karel Poneš
Lettering: Mercury, Dear Sir Madame
Paper: Munken Pure Rough
Print: Helbich, a.s.
Fashion collection: Lada Vyvialová
Make-up: Eva Legutová
Hair stylists: František Letal, Jakub Kubis
Publisher: wo-men
Publication collaboration: Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava
First edition, 2014
159 pp., 51 reproductions, sewn binding
Additional parameters
| Category: | Publications GVUO |
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| EAN: | 9788090523913 |