QUINDECENIUM. České Centrum Fotografie 2011 (Czech Center for Photography) [LIMITED EDITION WITH 15 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS, SIX OF THEM SIGNED]

Prague: České Centrum Fotografie (Czech Center for Photography), 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine to fine condition. 18/33 with 15 original photographs, six of them signed on versos, the others with CF stamp including artist name on verso, frontispiece with CF stamp and artist name below photo. Total edition of 200. Folio. 45pp., 15 plates of original photographs with printed tissue guards, including the frontispiece. Original black half leather over brown boards with debossed lettering on cover, housed in matching black half cloth clamshell box with debossed lettering on brown cover. Original frontispiece photograph by Michal Macku. Title page printed in brown and black. Graphic design by Vladimir Lederer.

Jiri Jaskmanicky: 'This book is dedicated to my most precious teacher, Mrs. Libus Zivna from Jaromer.' With introductory texts by Jan Mlcoch and Frantisek Dostal, the latter with photogravure of photo by Frantisek Dostal on facing page. Includes photo-illustrated chronology of exhibitions and publicationa of the Czech Center for Photography from 1997 to 2011, including documents in photogravure on pages opposing the text pages. Photogravure depicting the chairman of the institute on page facing first page of chronology.

At rear fourteen full page photographs from the original negatives, six of them signed on verso by Frantisek Dostal (1976), Petr Helbich (1972-74), Jan Mlcoch (2009), Miroslav Pokorny (1980), Ladislav Postupa (1963), Vasil Stanko (1987). Eight photographs with CF stamp and name of artists on verso, frontispiece below the image, by Josef Bartuska (1936), Antonin Gribovsky (1963), Tibor Honty (1940), Frantisek Povolny (1947), Jaroslav Rössler (1966), Drahomir Josef Ruzicka (1921), Jan Svoboda (1973), Bohumil Stastny (Neony 1. pol. 30. let / 2011), frontispiece photo by Michal Macku (2011). The dates in parenthesis indicate the date the original photograph was taken. Text in Czech. Clamshell box with light sunning at top and bottom edges, else in fine condition.