![DRTIKOL, Frantisek (1883-1961). Zena ve Svetle. [Woman in Light.] Prague: E. Beaufort, 1930. Octavo (240 x 170 mm). 46 black and white photographs. Original orange cloth, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (repaired at spine ends, corners, and lower edge of back panel, light soiling).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_07558_0260_000(drtikol_frantisek_zena_ve_svetle_woman_in_light_prague_e_beaufort_1930070501).jpg?w=1)
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DRTIKOL, Frantisek (1883-1961). Zena ve Svetle. [Woman in Light.] Prague: E. Beaufort, 1930. Octavo (240 x 170 mm). 46 black and white photographs. Original orange cloth, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (repaired at spine ends, corners, and lower edge of back panel, light soiling).
FIRST EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. With this book Drtikol moved 'into his own modernist style of photography that prefigured and influenced the emerging Bauhaus aesthetic' (101 Books). 101 Books, pp.64-65; Books of Nudes, pp.80-1; The Open Book, pp. 94-95; The Photobook, p.79 ('a handsome and well-designed book').
FIRST EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. With this book Drtikol moved 'into his own modernist style of photography that prefigured and influenced the emerging Bauhaus aesthetic' (101 Books). 101 Books, pp.64-65; Books of Nudes, pp.80-1; The Open Book, pp. 94-95; The Photobook, p.79 ('a handsome and well-designed book').