Jitka Hanzlová

Jitka Hanzlova: Forest
Publisher's Description
Photographer Jitka Hanzlová’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,
Hanzlová’s work is once again, as it has been so
directly in Female, and persistently in Rokytnik,
meaningful sociopolitically as well as aesthetically.
ISBN: 3865212107
Publisher: Steidl
Hardcover : 96 pages
Language: English
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Publisher: Steidl
Hardcover : 96 pages
Language: English