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Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Minor shelf wear; light sunning to jacket spine. Else a bright, clean copy. Named Best History Book in the 2002 Golden Light Awards Photographic Book of the Year competition sponsored by the Maine Photographic Workshops. Not until the fall of the communist regime in 1989 and the end of Czechoslovakia's cultural isolation did the world begin to appreciate the Czech avant-garde photographers of the first half of the twentieth century. This first survey of Czech avant-garde photography introduces the important work of Frantisek Drtikol, Jaromir Funke, Jaroslav Rossler, Jindoich Styrsky, Josef Sudek, and numerous others whose work made Czech photography synonymous with visions of modernity. The essays introduce the period and explore the background and connections among the photographers. Biographical profiles are also included. But the book's main attraction is its outstanding collection of duotone and color images, many published here for the first time. The Czech edition of this book received the Best Photographic Publication of 1999-2000 award from Primavera Fotografica in Barcelona and from Month of Photography in Bratislava and was one of six finalists for the 2001 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award.…

dj. First English Language Edition. Quarto (28cm x 23.5cm). Black cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in white on cover and spine; pictorial dustjacket; 312pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to top and bottom edges, else appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else appears new. The first comprehensive history of Czech avant-garde photography and photo-montage from the country's founding as an independent state in 1918 to the emergence of its totalitarian regime in 1948. Hundreds of b&w photographic reproductions.…