In Prague, photographer Bruce Weber’s new show, “My Education,” will reveal 400 images taken over five decades. Animals, a Weber trademark, are given their own space and billing in this thematic exhibition, which also covers fashion, documentary, music, sports, film and video, landscapes, portraits, and nudes. Several years in the making, the show marks Weber’s return to a country he last visited in 2000, when he photographed the late Heath Ledger for Vanity Fair. Arranged across two floors of Stone Bell House, an extraordinary Gothic bell tower that makes up part of the National Gallery in the city’s old town square, it is Weber’s first retrospective. The Taschen catalogue that accompanies the exhibition documents the playful glamour of Weber’s world, where reality and fantasy blend so vividly. Weber’s contributions to the catalogue give it the intimate flavor of a family album, one that conjures nostalgia for a time when all-Americanism felt a little less fraught. —Catherine Fairweather