From the Center of Europe. Czech Photography, 1912-1974, presents a history of over sixty years: that of artistic photography in what is now the Czech Republic, one of the Mitteleuropa countries where the photographic avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s flourished with special intensity, as well as the photography of Surrealism and Informalism.

The works are drawn entirely from the Dietmar Siegert Collection (Munich), a collection that, due to its specialization and the individual quality of the works in its photographic collection, makes it possible to tell this largely unknown story, combining an overview with attention to the subjectivity of each photographer. The result is a fascinating and varied fresco in which internationally known names like Drtikol, Teige or Sudek are combined with brilliant unknowns like Nožička or Hák and currents like surrealism, constructivism, a certain subjective photography and the informalism that flooded the postwar period and that in the former Czech Republic meant the expressionist alternative to socialist realism, the official artistic “style”.

The book serves as a catalog of the exhibition shown at the Juan March Foundation in Madrid and the Balearic Islands, as well as the Museum of Abstract Art in Cuenca.