Last Folio - Dojc, Yuri; Krausova, Katya
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Last Folio features stunning photographs taken by Yuri Dojc ofonce-vibrant Jewish communities throughout Slovakia. Dojc's photographic journeybegan in an abandoned school in Bardejov where time had stood still since the day in1942 when its students were taken to concentration camps. The books were stillthere, along with student essays marked with corrections and school reports -- alldisintegrating on dusty shelves. Dojc's eloquent photographs treat the decayingbooks as survivors, the last witnesses to what had been a thriving culture. LastFolio also includes portraits of aging Slovak Holocaust…mehr

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Last Folio features stunning photographs taken by Yuri Dojc ofonce-vibrant Jewish communities throughout Slovakia. Dojc's photographic journeybegan in an abandoned school in Bardejov where time had stood still since the day in1942 when its students were taken to concentration camps. The books were stillthere, along with student essays marked with corrections and school reports -- alldisintegrating on dusty shelves. Dojc's eloquent photographs treat the decayingbooks as survivors, the last witnesses to what had been a thriving culture. LastFolio also includes portraits of aging Slovak Holocaust survivors and images of thepoignant ruins of schools, synagogues, mikvahs, and cemeteries. With texts by LuciaFaltin, Katya Krausova, David G. Marwell, and Azar Nafisi, Last Folio presents astirring tribute to a vanished culture.
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Yuri Dojc is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose work is included in the collections of the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Canada, and the National Museum of Slovakia. An emigre to Canada from Czechoslovakia, he received a medal of honor from the Slovak Ambassador to the United States in 2001 for We Endured, a series of portraits of Holocaust survivors. Katya Krausova, a television producer who emigrated to Great Britain from Czechoslovakia in 1968, is a co-founder of Portobello Pictures, an independent film and television production company in the United Kingdom that won the 1997 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for Kolya.