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"A story full of passion, anger and nostalgia. - In his photo volume 'Praga Obscura,' Czech photographer Josef ŠNOBL intimately recounts his youth in a city that for him was not golden, but gray and depressing. Young, hungry for life and headstrong, he repeatedly broke the chains of his father's and the Czechoslovak state's rigid strictness and immersed himself in a world full of excesses. Accompanying his story are haunting black-and-white photographs from the 1970s and the period from 1990 onward, clearly showing that Josef ŠNOBL was one thing from an early age: a rebel in the best sense." (© Emons Verlag, 2022