Ocima: Svet Kolem Nas
Prague: Ceskoslovenske Filmore Nakladatelstvi, 1947. First edition. Softcover. Quarto (9 3/8 x 8 1/8"). 15pp. text, (1) 46 plates, 3pp. Original quarter brick red cloth over textured brown boards, protected by modern mylar. Top edge red. Publisher's device on half-title. Illustrated with forty-six full-page b/w reproductions of photographs by Czech artist Miroslav Hak, representing ten years of photographic work from 1935-1945. "In 1936 Miroslav Hák then an unknown photographer sent 4 pictures to the international exhibition of photography arranged by the photographic section of S. V. U. Mánes. Two of them are in this set of pictures, No. 2 "Day and night" which bore the name "Photography" in the catalogue of the exhibition and No. 4 "Rainy day." I vividly remember how we members of the jury, were struck by the conception, subject, expression and poetic and artistic language of the pictures." (Linhart). Contains brief biographical paragraph on Miroslav Hák. Introduction in English and Czech by Lubomir Linhart. Minor wear along edges of binding. Scarce. vg. Item #48898
Price: $300.00