Bohdan Holomíček: Album
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: February 29, 2024, 19:00 – 21:00
As its 700th publication, the TORST publishing house is issuing a photography book by Bohdan Holomíček entitled Album 1958-1977 bringing together 238 photographs from the first 20 years of Holomíček’s career. It is the second in a series of books with the unifying title Album that maps his photographic work. The first, Album Václav (The Václav Album), was published in 2016 and captures Václav Havel from 1974 until his death, among his closest friends, with writers, theatre artists and his wife Olga, as well as Czech and international politicians. For more than 60 years, Bohdan Holomíček’s images have been not only a unique document of historical events, but above all an intimate chronicle of the lives of the people he has encountered. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that Bohdan Holomíček can be described as a singular natural phenomenon.
“The unbelievable has come to pass and after seven years we are publishing this Holomíček book. I am happy that it will look just the same as I imagined. Specifically, that for the first time ever, Bohdan Holomíček’s photographs are arranged chronologically, making it possible to also read the author's life story from the photographs,” says publisher Viktor Stoilov.
Bohdan Holomíček will present a projection of his photos while a debate with him and Viktor Stoilov will be moderated by Jáchy Topol.