Jaromír Funke (1896-1945)

Untitled, c. 1923

Details

Jaromír Funke (1896-1945)
Untitled, c. 1923
gelatin silver print
credit, signature, and various annotations by Dr. Miloslava Rupesova, the photographer's daughter, in pencil (verso)
image: 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (12.2 x 17.2 cm.)
sheet: 4 3/4 x 7 1/8 in. (12.2 x 18.2 cm.)

Provenance

Thomas V. Meyer Fine Art, San Francisco, California, 2011.

Literature

Suzanne E. Pastor (ed.), Jaromír Funke: Photographs 1919-1943, Kant, Prague, 1995, n.p.
Antonin Dufek, Jaromír Funke: Pioneering Avant-Garde Photography, Moravian Gallery, Brno, 1996, pl. 12, p. 94.

Lot Essay

In these abstract photographs it is clearly demonstrated that simple reality has much that is mysterious about it -- something which makes photography fantastic -- and a novel and evocative poetic value.
Jaromír Funke, From the Photogram to Emotion, 1940

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