Karol Kallay - Italien heute ("Italy today") - 1962

EXTREM BEAUTIFUL, WIDELY UNKNOWN and HIGHLY UNDERRATED photobook by Karol Kallay (1926-2012), the most famous photographer from Slovakia - about Italy:
Manfred Heiting, Czech and slovak photo publications 1918-1989, pages 392/393

With the SCARCE, HIGHLY IMPRESSIVE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET.

BREATH-TAKING PHOTOGRAVURE PRINTING.

TRUE FIRST PRINTING WORLDWIDE (never published in Czechoslovakia) -
was published in Germany one year before the first English edition came out ("Italy today").

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Artia, Prague. 1962. First German edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 239 x 278 mm. 126 pages with black and white photos in photogravure printing. 4 pages with text. Photos: Karol Kallay. Designer: Karol Kallay. Text: Lubor Kara. Text in German.

Condition:
Book inside clean with no marks and with no foxing; pages smell a bit like smoke. Book outside partly browned (not foxed). Dustjacket with trace of use, several tears and creases at the edges, little missing part at the top left corner of the front; still impressive. Overall very good condition.

WHAT A WONDERFUL PHOTOBOOK - with the scarce original dustjacket.

"Karol Kállay was a Slovak art photographer and documentary photographer, author of reportage photographic series from abroad, monothematic publications and photographs of modern clothing for domestic and foreign magazines.
After graduating from grammar school in Trencin and Ružomberok, he started amateur photography.
He graduated from the University of Economics and the Comenius University in Bratislava.[missing source] Since 1945 he has been taking photographs professionally. In 1954 he published his first book. Member of the International Federation of Artistic Photography (FIAP) and holder of the EFIAP (Excellence de la Féderation Internationale de l'Art Photographique) title. In 1992 he received the GEO magazine's Editorial Award - Photographer of the Year.
He is considered one of the best Slovak photographers.
For some time he also worked as an assistant to a film director, e.g. on the film The Devil's Wall.
He has worked for the fashion magazine Móda as the only in-house photographer for more than 30 years. The magazine was published from 1950 by the Czechoslovak Union of Women. Kállay's photographs were first published in the summer 1956 issue. He worked with Moda until the late 1980s, and his other collaborations included the German magazines Saison and Sibylle and the French Jardin des Mondes. Kállay was to publish more than 20,000 photographs in domestic and international magazines over three decades. In 2019, a book, Karol Kállay - Focused on Beauty, dealing with Kállay's fashion photography, is planned for publication."
(Wikipedia)