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Jan Jedlicka: 200 m

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Jan Jedlicka: 200 m captures the changing landscape of a tiny 200-metre coastal strip at Principina a Mare near Grosseto, Southern Tuscany. Between 2008 and 2015, Jedlicka photographed this area through various seasons and weather conditions, revealing vivid summer beach scenes, deserted parking lots, and surreal wetlands with abstract vegetation and formations. The black-and-white images highlight the extraordinary natural variety and continuous atmospheric transformations visible in a small, immediate environment.
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Ideal for readers interested in photography, nature, and arts & culture enthusiasts who appreciate contemplative black-and-white imagery and the subtle beauty of changing landscapes.

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While working on his book The Circle in 2005, focusing on the capricious Maremma area in Southern Tuscany, the author came across a short coastal strip of immense diversity at Principina a Mare near Grosseto. This book features the black-and-white images that were taken by him in the range of only 200 meters.

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While working on his book The Circle in 2005, focusing on the capricious Maremma area in Southern Tuscany, Jan Jedlicka came across a short coastal strip of immense diversity at Principina a Mare near Grosseto. The constant atmospheric transformations of its landscape under the spell of the sky's play of light instantly caught his attention and inspired him to return frequently between 2008 and the summer of 2015.

Jedlicka visited this tiny spot by the sea in all seasons and weather conditions, capturing images of vivid summer beach life, deserted parking lots, and surreal wetlands bulging with abstract formations and vegetation between the water and the dunes. The black-and-white images were all taken in the range of only 200 meters, suggesting that we can discover a huge variety of spectacular natural phenomena in our most immediate environments.

Jedlicka is fascinated by the continuous change of the phenomena in front of our eyes, forming newly at any moment.

Heinz Liesbrock

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Guardian praises the work as "timely reflections on bittersweet loneliness," while L'Oeil de la Photographie highlights the vivid and surreal imagery of summer life, deserted spots, and abstract wetlands in Jedlicka’s photographs.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783958291010

Publisher: Steidl Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 March 2020

Country: Germany

Imprint: Steidl Verlag

Illustration: 65 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 275.0mm

Height: 295.0mm

Weight: 1340g

Pages: 156

About the Author

Jan Jedlička was born in Prague in 1944, where he studied painting at the academy before immigrating to Switzerland in 1969. He turned to photography rather late in his career. Jedlička's work has been exhibited at museums and galleries throughout Europe, including Kunstmuseum and Kunsthalle Winterthur, the National Gallery of Prague, CAMeC La Spezia, and the Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop. Steidl published his Il Cerchio / The Circle in 2008. Jedlička has had a long connection with Italy, and lives in Zurich and Prague.

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