Tirage argentique d'époque. Au verso, avec le tampon copyright du photographe, les tampons 'H. Hajek-Halke Experimentelle Fotografie für Presse und Werbung', 'H. Hajek-Halke Koblenz/Ehrenbreitstein Rheinburg', deux 'Achtung Unikat nach Veröffentlichung an Autor zurück' et 'HHH Inventar' ainsi que le numéro d'archive au crayon. Avec annotations au crayon et titré  "Erotik - ganz gross !" Bildvorlage zu einem Schutzumschlag eines Hollywood-Romanes.' tapuscrit sur une bande de papier fixé au verso.

Vintage silver print. On the reverse, with various photographer's stamps and the 'HHH Inventar' archive stamp and the archive number in pencil. Annotated in pencil and with typewritten title '"Erotik - ganz gross !" Bildvorlage zu einem Schutzumschlag eines Hollywood-Romanes.' on a paper strip affixed to the reverse.

Heinz Hajek-Halke (1898-1983), Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2002;
Heinz Hajek-Halke: Form aus Licht und Schatten, Berlin, Kulturforum/ Museum für Fotografie derꦺ Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, 2🤡007 et Munich, Kunstfoyer Versicherungskammer Bayern, 2008.

 

Heinz Hajek-Halke. Artist, Anarchist, Göttingen, Steidl, 2006, ill. p. 33;
Annette et Rudolf Kicken/ Simone Förster, Points of View. Masterpieces of Photography and Their Stories, Göttingen, Steidl, 2007, ill. p. 278 (un autre tirage).

This print is in good condition. With some fine original retouching on the glossy surface. With a strong fold of approx. 4 cm cracking the gelatin layer at the right edge towards the top; the upper left corner is minimally torn (away from the image); with several handling creases allover the surface; the corners are worn outside the image.
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His montages serve to transform time and space. They refer to nothing less than what lies beyond the image: the self-referential candor of sensuous illustration. (Dieter Appelt, in Points of View, p. 279)