Pátečníci na fotografiích Karla Čapka
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Karel Capek's passion for photography did not last too long and reached its peak in 1930-1932, when most of his photographic portraits of Friday Men were taken. This was a friendly group of writers, philosophers, journalists, politicians and scientists who gathered in Capek's Prague home in 1924-1938 for open and often polemical discussions on matters of principle and everyday life. In addition to the Capek brothers, Friday Men (Patecnici) included Edvard Benes, Josef Kopta, Ferdinand Peroutka, Josef Susta, Frantisek Langer, Eduard Bass, Karel Polacek and many others, more than sixty personalities in all, and the writer captured more than half of them in his photographs in 102 rare images, which allow specific faces to be added to lesser-known names.
