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FRANTISEK DRTIKOL
Zena ve Svetle -- Woman in Light. Prague: E. Beaufort, 1930.
Octavo (240 x 170 mm). 46 black and white photographs. Original orange cloth, original photo-illustrated dust jacket (trimmed, lacking front flaps and backed on paper).
FIRST EDITION, IN MOST OF THE RARE DUST-JACKET, and with 3 playful photographic portraits c.1930 of Drtikol dressed in drag laid-in -- these possibly self-portraits. With this book Drtikol moved 'into his own modernist style of photography that prefigured and influenced the emerging Bauhaus aesthetic' (101 Books). 101 Books, pp.64-65; The Open Book, pp. 94-95; The Photobook, p.79 ('a handsome and well-designed book'). (4)
Zena ve Svetle -- Woman in Light. Prague: E. Beaufort, 1930.
Octavo (240 x 170 mm). 46 black and white photographs. Original orange cloth, original photo-illustrated dust jacket (trimmed, lacking front flaps and backed on paper).
FIRST EDITION, IN MOST OF THE RARE DUST-JACKET, and with 3 playful photographic portraits c.1930 of Drtikol dressed in drag laid-in -- these possibly self-portraits. With this book Drtikol moved 'into his own modernist style of photography that prefigured and influenced the emerging Bauhaus aesthetic' (101 Books). 101 Books, pp.64-65; The Open Book, pp. 94-95; The Photobook, p.79 ('a handsome and well-designed book'). (4)
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