Product Description: Czech photographer Frantisek Drtikol (1883-1961) reinvented the genre of nude photography for the early twentieth century. Drtikol opened his Prague studio in 1907, and his nudes from this early period convey the dreamy eroticism of Art Nouveau and the foreboding accents of Prague Symbolism that he was to return to throughout his somewhat brief career (Drtikol abandoned photography for painting in 1935, and it was not until curator Anna Fárová's now legendary 1972 Prague exhibition that this work was rediscovered by a broader public)...read more

Product Description: Frantisek Drtikol (1883-1961) is one of the best known Czech photographers. This book collects many never-before published photographs from the years 1901-1914, and includes the album "From Large and Little Courtyards of Old Prague" which Drtikol issued with Ausgustin Skarda in 1911...read more