DeCordova Collects Photographs: Recent Acquisitions
Paul Ickovic
Paul Ickovic makes his home on the East Coast, but has traveled the world carrying a concealed camera to capture telling, emotionally laden pictures of people, places, and their interactions. According to the artist, he is interested in “formal, yet humorous portrayals of humanity and the romantic—I am interested in people in the margins. I often shoot people waiting for something to happen.” Ickovic’s work in DeCordova Collects Photographs: Recent Acquisitions is from a portfolio of photographs made in 1980 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. This portfolio reveals the stark beauty of the Soviet bloc city, but not with images of its historic architecture or familiar tourist sites. Instead, Ickovic, who is of Czech descent, concentrates on ordinary people in ordinary neighborhoods. The photographs capture a quiet, bleak poetry of place, and find hope and humor in images of children in gritty city spaces.
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