Rozsáhlý přehled českých a slovenských fotografických publikací připomíná sté výročí založení Československé republiky 28. října 2018. Ukazuje nepřerušenou tradici vynikající umělecké tvorby a technické dokonalosti, která je vlastní české a slovenské fotografii. Během posledního sta let se čeští a slovenští fotografové a spisovatelé, typografové, knižní grafici a tiskaři podíleli na zachycování krajiny, měst, kulturního dědictví, památek a života lidí s vekou pozorností a láskou ke své zemi - a vytvářeli tak jedinečnou kulturní identitu své země i během nacistické okupace a čtyřiceti let vlády komunistů. Rozsáhlá kniha zkoumá v devíti kapitolách více než 800 publikací vydaných od roku 1918 do roku 1989 a představuje práci více než 250 fotografů a grafiků včetně Alfonse Muchy, Josefa Sudka, Františka Drtikola, Jaromíra Funkeho, Jaroslava Rösslera, Zdenka Tmeje, Jindřicha Štyrského, Karla Teigeho a Ladislava Sutnara, Karla Plicky, Jana Lukase, Karla Hájka, Tibora Hontyho, Josefa Proška, Libora Fáry, Martina Martinčeka, Karola Kállaye, Jindřicha Štreita, Bohdana Holomíčka a Josefa Koudelky.

Whether in his sumptuous images for advertising or his soft-hued nudes, Paul Outerbridge (1896–1958) was an alchemist of desire. Color was integral to his aesthetic allure, embracing the complex tri-color-carbro process to create a seductive surface of texture and tone. His quest was for “artificial paradises”—a perfection of form, with a surreal edge. This concise monograph introduces Outerbridge’s unique aesthetic and its commercial and artistic trajectory, from his professional peak as New York’s highest-paid commercial photographer through to his retreat to Hollywood in the 1940s after a scandal over his erotic photography. With key examples from his oeuvre, the book explores Outerbridge’s innovative style through Cubist still life images, magazine photographs, and his controversial nudes, as well as his interaction with other avant-garde photographers, such as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Man Ray. Along the way, we recognize Outerbridge’s particular ability to transform everyday objects into a quasi-abstract composition and his pioneering role in championing the expressionistic, as much as commercial, potential of color photographs. Contributors The editor Manfred Heiting is an internationally acknowledged designer, curator, and expert on and collector of photographs and photobooks; he lives in Malibu and Brussels. He is a founding member of the J. Paul Getty Museum Council and since 2016 UCLA Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities. He is editor and designer of Deutschland im Fotobuch, The Soviet Photobook, and The Japanese Photobook and co-editor and designer of Autopsie: Deutschsprachige Fotobücher 1918–1945. The authors Elaine Dines-Cox is an independent art museum curator living in San Francisco. Her 1981 monograph on Paul Outerbridge was the first published catalogue raisonné on an art photographer. Carol McCusker is Curator of Photography at the University of Florida’s Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida. She is former Curator of Photography the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego.