DRTIKOL (František). - Lot 90

DRTIKOL (František). Art Deco photographer. Text by Anna Fárová. Edited by Manfred Heiting. Munich - Paris - London, Schirmer/Mosel, [circa 1991]. Large quarto, publisher’s hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. One of the most important monographs devoted to František Drtikol (1883–1961), a major figure in European photography between the two world wars. Compiled by the renowned Czech historian Anna Fárová, a specialist on Drtikol, this volume meticulously traces the photographer’s career, from his pictorialist beginnings to his famous modernist compositions of the 1920s and 1930s. Richly illustrated with numerous full-page reproductions, it highlights the portraits, female nudes, geometric compositions, and experiments with light that established Drtikol as one of the leading exponents of Art Deco aesthetics and the Central European photographic avant-garde. French edition published by Schirmer/Mosel, a publisher renowned for the quality of its books on photography. Condition: a very fine copy, dust jacket in excellent condition, interior perfectly fresh.