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A classic work in the
history of photography, Styrsky's disturbing and evocative pictures are
perfectly complemented by Heisler's text.
"This remains a haunting photobook, 50 years after the war. It is a prime example of one of the photobook's great truths--it's not necessarily the individual pictures that count, but what you do with them"(Martin Parr, The Photobook). A "meditation on war and resistance,... the book’s aura of alienation, repression, and anxiety not only captured the war’s home front theatre of the absurd, it anticipated the depth of postwar pessimism." Roth 101 (116). Hasselblad 140. |
| STYRSKY, Jindrich;
HEISLER, Jindrich. Na jehlach techto dni. [On the Needles of These
Days]. Design by Karel Teige. Prague: F.R. Borovy, 1945. Thin octavo,
original wrappers. $3200. First trade edition (following the exceedingly scarce "clandestine" edition of 1941), with 28 black and white photographs by Jindrich Styrsky. A beautiful copy of a fragile book, with only a hint of wear to the corners. Rare in this condition. Additional images, please click to enlarge:
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