Lukas, Jan. Light and shade. (Preface by Jan Drda and Edwin Muir). Prague, Melantrich (1947). 4°. 63, (1) S., [1] Bl. mit 64 Tafeln in Heliogravure. OLn. mit illustr. OU.
Heiting, Czech and Slovak Photo Publications 281, 294. – Erste englische Ausgabe. – Erschien auch mit dem Titel „Land and People“. – „The photographer Jan Lukas, who had been a prominent member of the influential Association of Czech Amateur Photographers’ Club…, in the 1930s, and had worked for the Bat’a Film Studio in Zlin during the same period, contributed images for a large-format homage to Czech lands published in 1946 by Melantrich. Titeled Zeme a lidé, … Melantrich re-issued the volume with English text the following year under the title Land and People: Photographs of Czechoslovakia. It is perhaps the best of many photographic books of this era which directly celebrate the renewed spirit of the Czechoslovak nation and its culture“ (J. Steerman in Heitmann S. 259). – Schutzumschlag mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren und rest. Randläsuren, sehr gutes sauberes Exemplar.
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