Mezinárodní výstava moderní fotografie 1936

Mezinárodní výstava moderní fotografie [International Exhibition of Modern Photography]. Praha: S.V.U. Mánes, 1936.8vo. 24 pp. introductory text and catalogue, followed by 16 pp. original advertising leaves. Numerous full-page photogravure reproductions throughout. Original printed wrappers. Good condition. Light wear and soiling to wrappers. Moisture staining to the lower right corner of the advertising section; principal text and photographic reproductions unaffected.Catalogue of the landmark international photography exhibition organized by S.V.U. Mánes in Prague in March 1936. The exhibition brought together an exceptional cross-section of modern photography, including works by Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Brett Weston, Paul Schuitema, Georges Saad, Werner Rohde, Raoul Michelet, Lionel Wendt, Josef Sudek, Jaromír Funke, Alexandr Hackenschmied, and numerous Soviet photographers, alongside leading Czech and Slovak practitioners. The introduction by Lubomír Linhart presents a concise manifesto of modern photography, advocating the medium's documentary, social, scientific, and artistic functions while rejecting pictorialist conventions. The catalogue documents one of the most ambitious surveys of international modernist photography held in Central Europe before the Second World War and provides an important record of the Czech avant-garde's engagement with contemporary photographic developments abroad.Organized by Emil Filla, Jaromír Funke, Alexandr Hackenschmied, Jiří Jeníček, Jiří Lehovec, Lubomír Linhart, František Povolný, Josef Sudek, and František Vobecký. Installation by Otakar Novotný and Richard Podzemný.