Hipman, Prace je ziva - Prag 1945 INDUSTRIEPHOTOGRAPHIE - Prace je ziva

Hipman, Vladimír. Práce je živá. Spredmluvou Jana Weniga. 1. vyd. Praha, Ceská Grafická Unie 1945. 4°. [96] Bl. mit 172 ganzs. Abb. Illustr. OHln. mit illustr. OU.

Auer 305. Heiting, Czech and Slovak Photo Publikations 276 f., 288. – Einzige Ausgabe. – Das Buch erschien in drei Einbandvarianten: dunkelbrauner Leineneinband und zwei Halbleinen-Ausgaben mit Deckeln in Olivgrün und marm. Hellbraun (wie hier). – Vladimir Hipman (1908-1976), „did his most important photographic work on the subjects of industrial and physical labour. He began collaborating with the Mining and Metallurgy Company (Banska a hutni spolecnost) in 1934 and in the ensuing decades took hundreds of photographs on the sites of the company’s different plants and workplaces. These images are representative of the strong New Objectivity and Constructivist movements. Hipman’s pre-war work culminated in an independent exhibition titled ‚Steel in Photography‘ (Ocel ve fotografii) in 1938 at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, in which there are already signs of his experimenting with narrative arrangements of the photographs. This is something he later applied in his seminal book Prace je ziva (Work Is Alive; 1945), which sums up the characteristic attributes of pre-war photography, while also charting some of the new directions in which the field would set off in the 1950s. A restrained modernity and a realistic approach to portraiture characterise the photographs published in the book, and these qualities are clearly why Hipman’s work was well received in the late 1940s and early 1950s, as was the fact that he himself was regarded as the father of Socialist Realist industrial photography“ (M. Hola, A Fascination with Industry: The Photography of Vladimir Hipman between the 1930s and the 1950s). – Schutzumschlag stellenweise berieben und mit Randläsuren, papierbedingt etwas gebräunt, gutes Exemplar.