Ocima: Svet Kolem Nas
Prague: Ceskoslovenske Filmore Nakladatelstvi, 1947. First edition. Softcover. Quarto (9 1/8 x 8 1/8"). 15pp. text, (1) 46 plates, 3pp. Original photo-illustrated black and white wraps with publisher's device and white lettering on cover, black on back cover, protected by modern mylar. 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 of wraps. Scarce. Very good+ condition. Item #48899
Price: $350.00