Roma rising / Romské obrozeni.

Beschrijving

27.5 x 21 cm. 205 pp. Bound with dustwrapper. With 100 b/w portraits.Portraits and profiles of 100 Roma people from the Czech Republic by the American photographer Chad Evans Wyatt . Text in Czech and English. – Consider the ‘Gypsy’ photograph as text. What are its usual elements? The first ingredient is exoticism, an ‘otherness’ separating this group from its majority context. Such style of photograph, in the words of Professor Miroslav Vojtechovsky, produces a theatre of grotesque characters, irreconcilably different, without redemption, like as not emphasising poverty, unbridled ecstasy, rootlessness, irresponsibility. Often, this is presented in garish colour, furthering the isolation of those pictured. – Romarising offers a different view […] Chad Evans Wyatt. [http://www.romarising.com/about/]. – Fine copy

Auteur: WYATT, Chad Evans

Jaar: 2005

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Uitgeverij: Argo

Plaats: Praha

ISBN: 8072036939