Photography Sees the Surface - Softcover

Ladislav Sutnar; Jaromír Funke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0930042921 ISBN 13: 9780930042929

Publisher: Michigan Slavic Publications, 2004

Synopsis

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Michigan Slavic Publications
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0930042921
• ISBN 13: 9780930042929
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 44
• Editor: Jindrich Toman