DRTIKOL, Frantisek (1883-1961). 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 (repaired at spine ends, corners, and lower edge of back panel, light soiling). FIRST EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. 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; Books of Nudes , pp.80-1; The Open Book , pp. 94-95; The Photobook , p.79 ('a handsome and well-designed book').
DRTIKOL, Frantisek (1883-1961). 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 (repaired at spine ends, corners, and lower edge of back panel, light soiling). FIRST EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. 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; Books of Nudes , pp.80-1; The Open Book , pp. 94-95; The Photobook , p.79 ('a handsome and well-designed book').
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