Photography and the Avant-Garde

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"If there is no mystery in a photograph, if its reality has no other design, then it is empty. It is not a matter of description of objects, it is not a matter of describing a head, a face inscribed in another object, but rather a matter of what is evoked." Emila Medkova

Legs 1949

Emila Medkova was born in 1928 and died in 1985.

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Emila Medková: The Magic of Despair, Krzysztof Fijalkowski. Tate Papers, 2005

Images of Desire Jan Hathaway surrealist photography

CEPIC 2005 - past and present of Czech photography