Dancing Girls
X.044.02
Around 1930 Drtikol began to eliminate the living body from his work. Instead, he began to craft human-shaped forms out of cut stiff paper, in a period he called "photopurism". These photographs resembled silhouettes of the human form.
From a portfolio entitled Drtikol, containing 9 silver gelatin contact prints that were made from vintage large-format, glass-plate negatives of Frantisek Drtikol, which date between 1900 and 1935. The majority of the images are female nudes. The portfolio is from a limited edition of 100 copies, and it was published in 1977 by the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House (Rochester, NY).