The Dean Gallery's festival exhibition will explore the breathtaking success of modernist photography in Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Austria during a time of tremendous social and political upheaval.
The first survey ever carried out on this subject, FOTO will include many stunning works that will be shown in Britain for the first time. The exhibition will be unprecedented in scope, comprising more than 150 photographs, books and illustrated magazines.
With more than 100 photographers represented, the exhibition addresses topics such as photomontage and war, gender identity, life and leisure in the modern metropolis, and the spread of Surrealism. The work of internationally recognised masters such as László Moholy-Nagy, Hannah Höch, André Kertész, and El Lissitzky will be shown alongside that of historically important contemporaries such as Karel Teige, Edith Tudor Hart, František Drtikol, Martin Munkacsi and Trude Fleischmann.
This will be the only European showing of this magnificent exhibition. FOTO was curated by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
