Heinz Hajek-Halke (1898 - 1983)

Vintage silver print. On the reverse, with the photographer's 'H. Hajek-Halke Experimentelle Fotografie für Presse und Werbung Wasserburg-Bodensee' stamp and his copyright and archive 'HHH Inventar' stamps with the archive number in pencil, and the typewritten title ' "Das EVA-CHANSON" (Das Feigenblatt als Abendkleid)' on a paper strip fixed to the reverse.

Heinz Hajek-Halke: Form aus Licht und Schatten, Berlin, Kulturforum/ Museum für Fotografie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, 2007 and Munich, Kunstfoyer Versicherungskammer Bayern, 2008.

Heinz Hajek-Halke. Artist, Anarchist, Göttingen, Steidl, 2006, ill. p. 27 (The Song of Eve).

In very good condition. With a horizontal crease of approx. 4cm in the upper left corner and one scratch of approx. 3cm towards the upper edge. The corners very slightly bumped. With some original retouching. On the reverse, with remnants of an earlier mounting at the upper edge.
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The Song of Eve (Das Eva-Chanson) is arguably Hajek-Halkes most elegant and romantic image. It  reflects his sense of beauty perfectly and contains all elements of his stylistic expression of the 1930s; the image is the result of a montage of two superimposed negatives, one of a beautiful (naked) woman and one of an everyday object. Hajek-Halke experimented with this theme; one variant, for example, shows the woman's face without the fig leaf. The print offered here has some very delicate original retouching which accentuates the contour lines of the female body and of the leave's veins.