Background information
"In the 1920s and 1930s, photography became an immense phenomenon across Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, and Poland. Through magazines and books, in advertisements and at exhibitions, from amateur clubs to avant-garde schools, photographs emerged as a key vehicle of modern consciousness.
Content
This out-of-print volume, 'Foto. Modernity in Central Europe. 1918-1945' by Matthew WITKOVSKY and Peter DEMETZ, presents the work of approximately one hundred individuals whose creations exemplify the potential of photography in Central Europe between the two World Wars. The compendium 'Foto. Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945' brings together for the first time works by recognized masters such as the Russian El LISSITZKY, the Hungarian László MOHOLY-NAGY, and the German Hannah HÖCH―all of whom developed their photographic ideas in Germany―with contemporaries like Karel TEIGE and Jaromír FUNKE (Czechoslovakia), Kazimierz PODSADECKI (Poland), Károly ESCHER (Hungary), and Trude FLEISCHMANN (Austria), who are less well known today.
Organized thematically, the book explores topics from photomontage and war to gender identity, modern living, and the spread of Surrealism. It shows the shared experience of modernity in the region, whereby recently founded nations and dismantled empires alike sought their place within the new world order established in the aftermath of World War I. The illustrations, drawn from more than seventy collections in America and abroad, include several previously unpublished works as well as many others never before available in high-quality reproductions." (publisher's note, © Thames & Hudson, 2007)
About the included photographers
Wilhelm ANGERER, Karol AUFRICHT, Theo BALLMER, Rudolf BALOGH, Josef BARTUSKA, Herbert BAYER, Wladyslaw BEDNARCZUK, Hans BELLMER, Erno BERDA, Ladislav Emil BERKA, Eva BESNYO, Marianne BRANDT, Janusz Maria BRZESKI, Jan BULHAK, Max BUCHARTZ, Frantisek CERMAK, Mieczyslaw CHOYNOWSKI, Paul CITROEN, Erich COMERINER, Milos DOHNANY, Frantisek DRTIKOL, Josef EHM, Max ERNST, Karoly ESCHER, Trude FLEISCHMANN, Jaromir FUNKE, Lotte GOLDSTERN-FUCHS, Carola VON GRODDECK, Francis HAAR (Haar Ferenc), Alexandr HACKENSCHMIED (Alexander HAMMID), Karel HAJEK, Miroslav HAK, Edward HARTWIG, Heinrich HAUSER, John HEARTFIELD (Helmut Herzfeld), Jindrich HEISLER, Karoöl HILLER, Vladimír HNÍZDO, Hannah HÖCH, Lotte JACOBI, Jerzy JANISCH, László KÁLDOR, Dora (Philippine) KALLMUS, Kata KÁLMÁN, karel KASPARÍK, Lajos KASSÁK, André KERTÉSZ (Kertész ANDOR), Imre KINSZKI, Rudolf KOPPITZ, Arthur KÖSTER, Rudolf KRAMER, Jirí KROHA, Alexander KRZYWOBLOCKI, Jan LAUSCHMANN, Kazimierz LELEWICZ, Helmar LERSKI (Israel SCHMUKLERSKI), El LISSITZKY, Rudolf LUTZ, Olga SPOLARICS, Adorján WLASSICS, Jindrich MARCO, Evzen MARKALOUS, Lucia MOHOLY, Lázló MOHOLY-NAGY (Nagy László), Martin MUNKACSI (Memelstein Márton), Bohumil NEMEC, Ada (Adolf) NOVAK, Gyula PAP, József PÉCSI, Walter PETERHANS, Karel PLICKA, Kazimierz PODSADECKI, Frantisek POVOLN´Y, Sergej PROTOPOPOV, Albert RENGER-PATZSCH, Imre RÉVÉSZ, Irma BIRÓ, Grete STERN (Ringl), Ellen AUERBACH (pit), Franz ROH, Werner ROHDE, Witold ROMER, Hajo (Hans-Joachim) ROSE, Jaroslav RÖSSLER, Lothar RÜBELT, Willi RUGE, Erich SALOMON, August SANDER, Margit SIELSKA, Sasha STONE (Aleksandr Serge STEINSAPIR), Jindrich STYRSK´Y, Josef SUDEK, Edith (SUSCHITZKY) TUDOR-HART, Ladislav SUTNAR, Mieczyslaw SZUZUKA, Teresa ZARNOWER, Karel TEIGE, Stefan THEMERSON, UMBO (Otto UMBEHR), Erno VADAS, Roman VISHNIAC, Frantisek VOBECK´Y, Siegfried WEYR, Mario (August Maria) WIBERAL, Antoni WIECZOREK, Eugen WISKOVSKY, Sztanislaw Ignacy WITKIEWICZ, Paul WOLFF, Wanda WULZ, YVA (Else NEULÄNDER-SIMON), Václav ZYKMOND
Photo books by included photographers
AUERBACH (pit), Ellen
BAYER, Herbert
BELLMER, Hans
BERKA, Ladislav Emil
BESNYO, Eva
BRANDT, Marianne
CITROEN, Paul
DRTIKOL, Frantisek
El LISSITZKY
FLEISCHMANN, Trude
FUNKE, Jaromir
HAJEK, Karel
HAUSER, Heinrich
HEARTFIELD (Helmut Herzfeld), John
HÖCH, Hannah
JACOBI, Lotte
KERTÉSZ (Kertész ANDOR), André
LERSKI (Israel SCHMUKLERSKI), Helmar
MOHOLY, Lucia
MOHOLY-NAGY (Nagy László), Lazslo
MUNKACSI (Memelstein Márton), Martin
PETERHANS,
Walter
PLICKA, Karel
RENGER-PATZSCH, Albert
STERN
(Ringl), Grete
ROH, Franz
ROHDE, Werner
RÖSSLER, Jaroslav
SALOMON, Erich
SANDER, August
STONE (Aleksandr Serge STEINSAPIR), Sasha
TUDOR-HART, Edith (SUSCHITZKY)
TEIGE, Karel
UMBO (Otto UMBEHR)
VISHNIAC, Roman
WOLFF, Paul
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Peter demetz
- Format
- Linen bound HC with dust jacket, 25 x 30 x 4 cm., 278 pp., 192 color & 40 tritone & duotone b/w ills., text language: English