Stage of backstage and Photo-graphics Cover Image

Javisko zákulisia a Foto-Grafiky
Stage of backstage and Photo-graphics

Author(s): Anton Sládek
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Photography, Visual Arts
Published by: Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie
Keywords: photography / fotografia; theater;

Summary/Abstract: Anton Sládek, another significant slovak photographer, who is also known for his classic black and white work, portrays theatrical actors and captures spontaneous backstageof the theater performance. The similarity of Anton Sládek ́s artwork to photograps of Diane Arbus is not only visual, but also thematic. As same as in the 70‘s american society was talking about Arbus that: “she was and still is a photographer, that America never wanted but surely needed. On the other side, she’s so important for american photography, that they would have miss her...”. We feel the same about Sládek. Not only that we want him, but we really need him. His second presented series of Photo-Graphics, manipulated stills and photograms is a collaboration with czech graphic designer Pravoslav Flak. They are interventions to photography, graphics and computer manipulations, while common idea is Plato‘s theory of human knowledge. In the form of bizarre still-lifes and games of lights, he associates with the links of André Kertész and Jaromír Funke to the interwar avant-garde, new pragmatism and new objectivity, as well as to the subtle and delicate metamorphosis of light reflections in the context of the Josef Sudek ́s works.

  • Issue Year: 5/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 70-95
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Slovak, English