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Photography Sees the Surface


by Ladislav Sutnar and Jaromír Funke, Translated by Matthew Witkovsky


Product Details

Photography Sees the Surface Cover ISBN: 978-0-930042-92-9
Format: Soft bound, 44p (un-paginated)
Pub. Date: 2004
Edition Description: First Edition  
Series: Czech Translation #4

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$32.00 USD


Additional Info

The present publication preserves the size, material appearance and basic typographic disposition of the 1935 original. Editorial notes and an afterword have been added


Description

The volume revives a major contribution to modern Czech photography, originally published in 1935. It includes 14 full-page photographs by Funke, Josef Ehm, and their students at the progressively minded State Graphic School in Prague. Professorial explanatory notes by a variety of contemporary experts accompany these images. The project was driven by pedagogical considerations, and as such it reveals the wide reach of photography in education, scholarship and culture. An afterword by Matthew Witkovsky and Jindřich Toman sets this important publication into historical context for the first time, explaining the advances and limitations of modernist photography in the official culture of interwar Czechoslovakia.


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