Women and their matters in text and photography.
One box, one book, six photo albums. 

Art project applying methods of oral history and photography describing important social issues through sincere stories of six Czech women.

              

 

Photo by Dita Pepe.
Dita Pepe is a photographer and a teacher at the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava.
Holder of several Czech and international awards, including Personality of Czech Photography 2012 for the book Self-portraits.

 

Text by Barbora Baronová

Barbora Baronová is a literary documentarian and a publisher.

Holder of several awards for the book Slečny, Love yourself and Intimita.

Set up the publishing house wo-men in 2012.

 

Published by wo-men.

 

                   

1 box
7 volumes
1 book
6 photo albums
344 reading pages
244 photo pages
atypical page formats
spot varnish
1 Middle-European country
few awards
24 cm × 17 cm × 5 cm
1,63 kg
40 €
#women #photography #biography # pictorialworks #socialconditions #oralhistory #Czech Republic
1 independent publisher

 

          

                   

                                 

 

          

4 TIMES AWARDED

Magnesia Litera Prague 2016

1st place, Publishing Achievement

 

The Most Beautiful Czech Books of 2015

2nd place, Fine-press and Artist´s Books Category

 

Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles 2016

shortlisted and exhibited at Les Prix du Livre – Prix Photo-Texte

 

28th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2018

shortlisted and exhibited

 

 

book Intimita

book Intimita

book Intimita

OUR BOOK intimita is ALL AROUND THE WORLD
BE AMONGST INSTITUTIONS OWNING this piece of art TOO

 

Art institutions:
Czech Republic, Prague, National Library of the Czech Republic
Czech Republic, Brno, Moravská galerie
France, Arles, Rencontres d'Arles library
Switzerland, Zürich, University of Zürich, Nebis
United States, Providence, Rhode Island, Brown University
United States, New York, Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
United States, New York, New York Public Library System
United States, New York, New York University, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
United States, Pittsburg, University of Pittsburg
United States, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
United States, Bloomington, Indiana University
United States, Urbana, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
United States, Berkeley, UC Berkeley Libraries

 

Private collectors abroad:
Australia, Sydney
Japan, Tokyo
South Africa, Johannesburg
Great Britain, London
Turkey, Istanbul
Germany, Berlin, Reinfeld
Slovakia, Bratislava
Poland, Sławków
Austria, Wien

 

book Intimita

book Intimita

book Intimita

book Intimita

Support our art work. Make an acquision. Buy the book-object for your institution.

 

book Intimita

book Intimita

book Intimita

You can see more books by Czech independent publisher wo-men at www.by-wo-men.com.

 

We are small art publishing house oriented toward (not only) gender-focused art books.

We love to publish books ambitious both in content and design.

Some of our books are published in English too.

Would you like to know more? Check at www.by-wo-men.com.

Thank you.

Barbora Baronová, wo-men publishing