Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police
This entirely bi-lingual Czech-English book brings forward one of a kind, never before published photographs taken in the course of secret police surveillance during the period of the communist totalitarian regime in Czechoslovakia. The publication presents a raw picture of Prague during the “normalization” era of hard-line socialist entrenchment after the 1968 Soviet-led occupation of Czechoslovakia in hundreds of photographs, supplemented by introductory and scholarly texts, a thorough index, and information on how and why the book came into being.
ÚSTR, Prague 2009, 1st edition, 288 pages, Czech and English, ISBN 978-80-87211-11-3
Ohlasy v médiích
- Perverzní neorealismus StB (Lidové noviny, 8.1.2011)
- Prague from the Perspective of the Pathological Powerful (Miroslav Vojtěchovský, Foam Magazine, issue #22)
- “Secret Police Photos Evoke the Iron Curtain Era” (Corydon Ireland, Archival Outlook: Newsletter of the Society of American Archivists, Jan/Feb 2010)
- Citizen spies, spied-on citizens. An exhibit of Czech secret-police photos from the Communist era, at Harvard through Dec. 21, shows Big Brother as unintentional artist (Harvard University Gazette, news.harvard.edu/gazette, 03-16 December 2009)
- ‚Paparazzi de Estado‘ UN LIBRO REÚNE FOTOS TOMADAS POR LA POLICÍA SECRETA CHECOSLOVACA (Vanity Fair, 13/2009)
- When Prague Spied on Its Own (Kristin Coyner, Roll Call, Washington, DC, September 14, 2009, www.rollcall.com)
- Praga Através das Lentes da Polícia Secreta (Canal de Moçambique, www.canalmoz.com, 12.8.2009)
- Praha v hledáčku StB (Petr Vilgus, DIGIfoto, 7 – 8 2009)
- Kühle Blicke auf das Leben anderer (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 24. 7. 2009)
- Big Brother’s Family Album. Secret police photographs evoke the oppression of communist Czechoslovakia (Barbara Bindasová, Prague Monitor Magazine; 03/2009)
- Praha estébácká (Stanislav Škoda, Český rozhlas, 3.6.2009)
- Coffee-table book with a difference collects photographs taken surreptitiously by communist-era secret police( Ian Willoughby, www.radio.cz, 28.5.2009)
- Kdo národ udržoval ve strachu (Lidové noviny, 23. 5. 2009)
- Při sledování disidentů nafotili umění (lidovky.cz, 15. 5. 2009)
- Podívejte se, jak StB nafotila starou Prahu při sledování disidentů (Jiří Šťastný, iDNES.cz, 14.5.2009)
- Nevyfotila si vás před lety StB? Podívejte se na snímky (Pavel Baroh, aktuálně.cz, 28.4.2009, aktualizováno 14.5.2009)