Vojta Dukát, Eva Gerlach — Alles is werkelijk hier

Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers. Second edition. 55 pp., 26x22. Condition: Very Good (VG). Very nice copy; no flaws (Publication date 2000) With dust jacket. Photographs made between 1972 and 1986 retain the ambiguity of observed moments while drawing attention to details that can be missed at first sight. This collaboration brings together Vojta Dukát’s photographs and poems by Eva Gerlach, whose writing repeatedly engages with photography. Each poem is titled only with the place and year in which its corresponding image was made. Some imagine what may have happened before the instant recorded by the camera, or what might have followed; others describe the image while redirecting attention to small visual elements. Gerlach also plays with photographic language, as when motion blur in an otherwise sharp photograph becomes a “moving head.” The poems remain in dialogue with the images rather than explaining them, preserving the uncertainty of Dukát’s clear photographic style. These photographs were the first collection Dukát released for publication in book form.