Photography Sees the Surface [Fotografie vidí povrch, 1935, 2004; anglicky; avantgarda; moderní umění]

Anglická verze Funkeho a Sutnarovy avantgardní fotopublikace "Fotografie vidí povrch" vydané Státní grafickou školou a Družstevní prací roku 1935 v Sutnarově typografické úpravě. Překlad zachovává velikost a úpravu originálu a je doplněn studií Jindřicha Tomana a Matthewa S. Witkovského. Vydáno jako 4. svazek edice "Michigan Slavic Publications Series: Czech Translations" (Michiganská univerzita v Ann Arbor).

Ze studie Tomana a Witkovského: "Photography Sees the Surface, a complicated and in many ways paradoxical book, appeared in May 1935 as a joint publication for the State Graphic School in Prague (Státní grafická škola, or SGS) and Cooperative Venture (Družstevní práce, or DP). The SGS had been founded soon after World War I, and straightaway became the premier institution for graphic arts instruction in the newly established Czechoslovakia. In February 1935, Jaromír Funke, who co-edited Photography Sees the Surface and provided its most intriguing photographs, was named head of the school's photography department. Funke replaced Karel Novák, a man of the previous generation who had led the photography division since its beginnings, and was formed by Secessionist aesthetics in pre-war Vienna, Funke, by contrast, had spent four years teaching at the School of Applied Arts (Škola umeleckých remesiel) in Bratislava, popularly known as the 'Bratislava Bauhaus,' where Secession-era ideals had been emphatically rejected in favor of utilitarian work and scientific rationalism. Photography Sees the Surface proclaimed the indispensability of photography to modern learning, and more subtly, it sent the message that a new kind of photo instructor had arrived in the Czechoslovak capital.
Funke had been hired at the SGS by the designer Ladislav Sutnar (1896–1972), the other editor of Photography Sees the Surface, and it was Sutnar who probably guided this project to completion. Sutnar was an enthusiastic advocate of the modernizing aesthetic promoted by the Bauhaus, and indeed welcomed everything prefixed with new – New Living, New Vision, New Typography."

Vydání: Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, University of Michigan 2004, brož., [40] s., 4° (21 x 30 cm)

Stav knihy: Jako nová.