The black and white photographs by Pavel Odvody (*1953) fuse sensibility, memory and fantasy in an original manner. His exploration of the psyche, beyond the body, is what gets under the observer´s skin. Moments of nakedness, staged in magical double exposures, wraithlike patterns or silhouettes of light, reveal the human being in their multifaceted manifestation.

The leitmotif in Odvody´s photography is the human being, their physicality, their movement. Odvody experiments with different - even "incorrect" - exposures times, associating rhythm and dance in his pictures: The figure frozen in the photograph turns into a dynamic gestural expression.

This volume offers for the first time an overview of the fascinating work of the photographer, who utilizes the phenomenon of light in a balance between figuration and abstraction in an unmistakably personal way.


Format Inbunden Omfång 192 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Hirmer Verlag Utgivningsdatum 2022-01-27 ISBN 9783777438726