Ivan Kyncl. Rebellion with a camera
From Visual Chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement in the ČSSR to Photographer of the British Stage
Prague-born Ivan Kyncl (1953–2004) attracted international attention in the 1970s: he managed to secretly photograph the surveillance practices of the secret police and to smuggle photographs into the West. Kyncl not only documented the persecution of Czech dissidents, he also revealed the everyday life of marginalised groups in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic following the suppression of the Prague Spring. He did so from an ideologically “deviant” perspective that ran contrary to the aesthetic normalisation of Socialist Realism. This book also presents Kyncl’s theatre photographs and reportage, which he produced after emigrating to London in 1980.
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Ivan Kyncl. Rebellion with a camera
ISBN 978-3-86678-986-9
21,00 × 26,50 cm
224 Pages
178 b/w illustrations
Softcover, bound, without dust jacket, without Schuber
Languages: German, English, Tschechisch
Editor
by Heidrun Hamersky, Ulrike Huhn, Susanne Schattenberg authors Vilém Precan, Heidrun Hamersky, Alena Melichar, Hans-Dietrich Genscher et al. graphic design Andreas Koch, Bielefeld
Events
exhibition „Rebellion mit der Kamera. Die Tschechoslowakei der 1970er Jahre in Fotografien von Ivan Kyncl“, 10.7.–20.8.2014, Bremer Rathaus; September 2014 Prager Nationalmuseum; November 2014 Mährisches Landesmuseum, Brno