Various authors

PHOTOGRAPHS 1928–1958

1959
Size 4°, 29.9x24.9 cm. Album of 20 photographs, two missing. Introductory text by Josef Kainar. Selection of photographs by Josef Prošek. Responsible editor Zdeněk Pilař. Design and binding by Stanislav Kohout. Full cloth boards with colour printed decoration and black lettering. Published by the State Publishing House for Fine Literature, Music and Art (SNKLHU), state enterprise, as its 136th publication in the visual arts editorial series in February 1959, in an edition of 6000 copies. 1st edition. Photographs printed by Orbis from the original negatives. Photographers represented: J. Funke, K. Hájek, A. Paul, E. Wiškovský, J. Jeníček, M. Hák, Z. Feyfar, K. Ludwig, V. Chochola, Z. Tmej, J. Ehm, J. Prošek, K. Plicka, T. Honty, J. Brok, V. Jírů, J. Lukas and E. Einhorn. J. Funke, from the cycle Čas trvá. Publ.: Daniela Mrázková, Příběh fotografie, Mladá Fronta 1985, p. 90; Howard Greenberg, Annette and Rudolf Kicken, Czech Vision. Avant-Garde Photography in Czechoslovakia, Hatje Cantz 2007, p. 10; Vladimír Birgus and Jan Mlčoch, Česká fotografie 20. století, Kant Praha 2009, p. 106 etc. Photographs by F. Drtikol and J. Sudek missing, good condition, only two photographs with minor creases, edges of the boards slightly rubbed and soiled. Provenance: Galerie Maldoror.