Zivot veci: Idea zatisi ve fotografii 1840-1985 / The Life of Things: The Idea of Still Life in Photography 1840-1985

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE-Between academic tradition and experimentation: Photography and still life in the 19th century

• The birth of a new motif tradition
• Arrangements and archaeological finds: inventoried and on exhibit
• The classical sub-genres: Flower, fruit, vegetable and hunting still life
• Mute genre images or talking still lifes?
• Exploring natural objects with new instruments

CHAPTER TWO-Of unfamiliar, all too familiar things: The metamorphosis of Still Life Photography in the 20th century

• Reflections and transformations
• The life of objects as conflicting documents of the private and social milieu
• The world of objects in the photography of the Bauhaus and the New Vision
• "Classical" still life themes in the photography of the 1930s: Appropriation and rejection
• The independent life of things: Still life within Surrealist photography
• Reflections on still life trends in Czech photography
• End and beginning

• List of illustrations
• Bibliography