Jan Němec: History of Light

One of the most translated Czech books of recent years - about the most famous Czech photographer of the 20th century. This is Jan Němec's novel about František Drtikol, The History of Light. It is said that the amateur photographer deals with cameras, the professional with lenses and the Master with light. During the First Republic, the photographer František Drtikol was called "Master" and the light truly accompanied him throughout his life, first as a photographer and later as a spiritual teacher. For his biographical novel about Drtikol, The History of Light, Brno writer Jan Němec received the 2014 Czech Book Award and the European Union Prize for Literature. It tells Drtikol's life primarily as a story of light. The external, with which Drtikol worked as a photographer, but also the internal, to which he turned in the second half of his life.