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Hatschek és Farkas. Fotó, Optika, Rádió. [Hatschek and Farkas. Photo, Lens, Radio.]

Budapest: Farkas Béla (Tolnai-nyomda), (1938). First edition. With numerous text illustrations. In original, illustrated paper, designed by Sándor Bortnyik. 94, (2) p. Cover little bit worn and stains. Still a very good copy.

Price list of the company “Hatschek és Farkas” the most prestigious store for photography, radio and electronics in the prewar Hungary.

Front cover printed in red and black, modernist typography and a simplified image of a camera in the background. Back cover also in red and black with a montage of a photograph of a Contax camera.

Cover designed by Sándor Bortnyik (1893–1976) was one of the most outstanding Hungarian avant-garde graphic artists and painters, who was tightly associated with Lajos Kassák’s avant-garde circle and magazine the “MA”.

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Price: €500.00