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Inscribed on Cemetery Images. One photograph… three poems (Aleš Prstek Publishing, 2010). This original publication is the fruit of a quartet comprising the artist Petra Růžičková and the poets Jana Štroblová, Vladimír Křivánek and Jan Suk. In thirteen photographic images, the artist departs from the gloomy cemetery atmosphere and the classic funeral scene to create a simile and metaphor of the burial ground as one of the last islets of peace and beauty. Each image is accompanied by three poems loosely linked to the pictorial content. The book also features essays by V.Křivánek , J.Suk and M.Janata. | |||
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Vladimír Křivánek: Vladimír Holan Poet (Aleš Prstek Publishing, 2010). The first major monograph by the prominent literary historian and poet, Vladimír Křivánek, on one of 20th-century Czech lyrical poetry’s biggest phenomena. Each chapter of the book opens with a photographic palimpsest by Petra Růžičková, sketching in key themes and the scenery of poems and quotations from Holan’s work. | |||
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Petra Růžičková: Fortress. The Stone Star Terezín (KANT, 2003). A book of photographs from Terezín Fortress, a place where time and history stand still, and a bizarre world closed in on itself. This art publication is accompanied by a foreword by Petr Pithart, a text of reminiscence by Arnošt Lustig, and a study by Jan Suk on the transformation of architectural labyrinths into art. | |||
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Arnošt Lustig: Odpovědi (‘Answers’, H&H, first edition 2000, second edition 2002, third edition Prostor, 2003). This book, containing conversations between Arnošt Lustig and the US journalist Harry James Cargass and the Czech scholar Michal Bauer, is illustrated with a set of black-and-white portraits of the writer. The book won a Magazín fotografie prize in the category ‘Literature Illustrated with Photography’. | |||
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Arnošt Lustig: Eseje (‘Essays’, H&H, 2001). A book of autobiographical essays, accompanied colour portraits of Arnošt Lustig taken in the authentic environment of Terezín Fortress, where the author was imprisoned during the war. | |||
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Arnošt Lustig: Interview (Akropolis, 2002). A selection of interviews given by internationally renowned writer to Czech and American periodicals between the 1970s and the 1990s. This book is illustrated with a cycle of meditative black-and-white photographs. Arnošt Lustig: Interview II. (Devět bran, 2004). A second, expanded edition of interviews given by the writer to Czech and American newspapers and magazines between 1979 and 2003. This publication is illustrated with portraits of Arnošt Lustig in the Wallenstein Garden. |
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Jan Suk: Potopené pevnosti (‘Sunken Fortresses’, KANT, 2002). Poems from June 2002. This book of lyrical texts and entries is accompanied by black-and-white reflected images corresponding to the poet’s quiet, philosophical lyricism. Jan Suk: Krysy v Hadrianově vile. Texty z let 1996 – 2004 (Rats in Hadrian’s Villa. Texts from 1996 to 2004, Concordia, 2004). A collection of reflections about literature, art, music, and architecture. The texts are accompanied by photographs of Mannerist-like mysterious and secluded spots with statues, petrified books, and bizarre architectural elements. The book won a Magazín fotografie prize in the category ‘Literature Illustrated with Photography’. |
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Jan Suk, Petra Růžičková: Tajná schodiště (‘Secret Stairways’, KANT, 2006). A bibliophilically tuned book of laconic verses by Jan Suk, in harmony with the minimalist photography of Petra Růžičková.
Věra Weislitzová: Dcera Olgy a Lea (‘The Daughter of Olga and Leo’, Devět bran, 2003). This collection of Czech and English poems by the Jewish author is a reflection of the Holocaust. The authentic bluntness of the poems is emphasized by existentially-tinged photographs of abandoned places offering a hint of a human story. |
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Pavel Hoza: Plundered Soul. Poems and Prose (H&H, 2008). A collection of poetic texts related to nature, accompanied by photographic images and still lifes toned in black and white.
Miloš Vodička: Blues for Accordion. The Witches of Blois (Protis, 2009). A collection of variations on the song form of blues accompanied by a new edition of the Witches of Blois poetry cycle. The neo-baroque nature of Vodička’s texts is complemented by similarly attuned illustrations. |
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Jan Suk: In the Arena of Dust, Shadow and Eventime. Essays on Female Characters in Opera (Pulchra, 2010). Reflections on Czech and world operas (Carmen, Tristan and Isolde, Rusalka, and others) by a leading Czech essayist. Besides historical illustrations, this book also features the photography of Petra Růžičková.
Michal Janata: The Loose Impalpability of Death (Pulchra, 2010). An innovative, boldly conceived essay on death, dying and these challenging and, in many respects, bleak times. Graphically examined pictorial parallels are incorporated into this book alongside the author’s portrait. |
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Zoo 2000: A wall calendar from Prague Zoological Gardens, the work of a group of Czech photographers in which Petra Růžičková is represented by a photograph from Bear Illusion (1999). | |||
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Aether 2001: An art calendar of black-and-white photographs on the dark side of secluded natural spots, reflected in the transformation of the elements. This calendar won a Special Prize from the Typografia periodical as Calendar of the Year 2001. | |||
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Natura arcana 2002: An art calendar in the form of a dream of tropical vegetation and wildness, which transforms in the photographs into an abstract game of light and shadow, plant elements and amorphous phenomena. Natura arcana won the Typografia First Prize as Calendar of the Year 2002. | |||