The photographer František Drtikol

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Although the book covers many aspects of Drtikols career and life-work, it is mainly devoted to his photographs. 120 duotone and 8 colour full-page reproductions of Drtikols works from the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague and a number of other public and private collections illustrate representative selections from all his creative periods, with an emphasis on Drtikols masterly nudes from the second half of the 1920s, when he moved gradually from his beginnings in pictorialism and symbolism to react in his highly individual way to current avant-garde trends. The text, supplemented with almost fifty other reproductions, analyzes and characterizes Drtikols photographs and locates them in the wider spiritual and artistic context of their time with the help of quotations from Drtikols notes and correspondence. The monograph also contains a complete exhibition history, bibliographic listing, and a number of little known works, some never before published.--Jacket.