Marie Tomanova: Kate, For You
Authors: Thomas Beachdel and Marie Tomanova
Foreword: Libuše Jarcovjáková
Introduction: Thomas Beachdel
Published by Untitled, Prague 2025
Authors: Thomas Beachdel and Marie Tomanova
Foreword: Libuše Jarcovjáková
Introduction: Thomas Beachdel
Published by Untitled, Prague 2025
Supervision: Lucie Černá
Book design: Jiří Mocek / Permanent Office
Hardcover / Embossed cloth with tipped-in photo / 114 pages
Printing & binding: Tiskárna Helbich, a.s.
Limited edition of 500 copies
ISBN 978-80-907568-8-5ISBN 978-80-907568-8-5
Book design: Jiří Mocek / Permanent Office
Hardcover / Embossed cloth with tipped-in photo / 114 pages
Printing & binding: Tiskárna Helbich, a.s.
Limited edition of 500 copies
ISBN 978-80-907568-8-5ISBN 978-80-907568-8-5
Marie Tomanova: It Was Once My Universe
Author Thomas Beachdel
Foreword by Lucy Sante
Texts Thomas Beachdel, Marie Tomanova
Published by Super Labo, 2022
Author Thomas Beachdel
Foreword by Lucy Sante
Texts Thomas Beachdel, Marie Tomanova
Published by Super Labo, 2022
Hard cover (cloth) / 128 pages / 85 illustrations (color)
Width 23.4 x height 27 cm, First edition
ISBN 978-4-908512-61-2
ISBN 978-4-908512-62-9 (Special Edition)
Signed copies available (US only), dedication upon request
Width 23.4 x height 27 cm, First edition
ISBN 978-4-908512-61-2
ISBN 978-4-908512-62-9 (Special Edition)
Signed copies available (US only), dedication upon request
In one way or another, we all leave home and look back with wordless wonder. Thank god there are artists like Marie Tomanova that can encapsulate the ruthless beauty of this rear-view canyon.
—Alec Soth
Marie Tomanova launches her new book It Was Once My Universe in Tokyo in September and in New York City in October 2022. Intimate and vulnerable, it is about her return home as a different person after a long period away, and the documentation of that dizzying experience. The photographs in It Was Once My Universe were created between December 16, 2018 and January 5, 2019 during Tomanova’s first return home in over eight long years to her small family farm in Mikulov, Czech Republic.
It Was Once My Universe is almost the other side of Tomanova’s critically acclaimed Young American (2019) and New York New York (2021), books about coming to the United States and finding her identity and celebrating that of others. It Was Once My Universe is about returning home and feeling lost. It is about being in-between.
It Was Once My Universe is almost the other side of Tomanova’s critically acclaimed Young American (2019) and New York New York (2021), books about coming to the United States and finding her identity and celebrating that of others. It Was Once My Universe is about returning home and feeling lost. It is about being in-between.
Marie Tomanova: New York New York
Author & Introduction by Thomas Beachdel
Foreword by Kim Gordon
Published by Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 2021
Buy signed copies HERE
Buy Special Artist Edition HERE
"New York was central to Tomanova’s photographic development. Her latest publication with art historian Thomas Beachdel . . . immortalises landscapes and individuals across the city."
- Hannah Abel-Hirsch, British Journal of Photography
"New York New York is about identity and freedom. The freedom to find yourself and to be yourself. It is about New York as a place of becoming. This is part of what Kim Gordon touches on in her foreword. She shares her experience of coming to New York as a young artist. It seems similar to mine and the experiences of so many of the people photographed for the book. We all come here for a reason—to be ourselves, maybe to find ourselves, our most true selves, to create ourselves. Growing up and becoming who you want to be, not what others want you to be, is not always easy. New York is a special place for that becoming. It may be a difficult place, but it is also magical. Maybe we all come for that magic." - Marie Tomanova
Author & Introduction by Thomas Beachdel
Foreword by Kim Gordon
Published by Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 2021
Buy signed copies HERE
Buy Special Artist Edition HERE
"New York was central to Tomanova’s photographic development. Her latest publication with art historian Thomas Beachdel . . . immortalises landscapes and individuals across the city."
- Hannah Abel-Hirsch, British Journal of Photography
"New York New York is about identity and freedom. The freedom to find yourself and to be yourself. It is about New York as a place of becoming. This is part of what Kim Gordon touches on in her foreword. She shares her experience of coming to New York as a young artist. It seems similar to mine and the experiences of so many of the people photographed for the book. We all come here for a reason—to be ourselves, maybe to find ourselves, our most true selves, to create ourselves. Growing up and becoming who you want to be, not what others want you to be, is not always easy. New York is a special place for that becoming. It may be a difficult place, but it is also magical. Maybe we all come for that magic." - Marie Tomanova
Editor: Nadine Barth
Graphic design: Vladimíra Pípová
Reproductions: Studio Marvil, Prague, Radek Typovský
Hardcover / 25 x 27 cm / 176 pp / 150 color plates
First edition / Printed in Italy
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5086-8
Graphic design: Vladimíra Pípová
Reproductions: Studio Marvil, Prague, Radek Typovský
Hardcover / 25 x 27 cm / 176 pp / 150 color plates
First edition / Printed in Italy
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5086-8
Marie Tomanova: Young American
Authors: Thomas Beachdel and Marie Tomanova
Introduction: Ryan McGinley
Essay: Thomas Beachdel
Published by Paradigm Publishing, 2019
Editor: Thomas Beachdel and Marie Tomanova
Softcover, 9 x 10.5 inch, 144 pages
UV Offset printing, Smyth-sewn binding
First limited edition
ISBN: 978-1-7322746-9-3
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Softcover, 9 x 10.5 inch, 144 pages
UV Offset printing, Smyth-sewn binding
First limited edition
ISBN: 978-1-7322746-9-3
SOLD OUT