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Josef Sudek photography and editorial Anna Faravo
Publisher : Gina Kehayoff Verlag (July 23, 1998)
Language : English
Hardcover : 408 pages
ISBN-10 : 3929078554
ISBN-13 : 978-3929078558
Dimensions : 27.31 x 3.81 x 34.93 cm
The book is in a cardboard cassette.
Sudek was born in Kolín, Bohemia. He worked as a bookbinder before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army in 1915 and serving on the Italian front during World War I. In 1916 his right arm was injured, causing the limb at the shoulder to be amputated. After returning from the war, he studied photography in Prague for two years with Jaromír Funke. His disability pension allowed him to spend his time creating art and exploring different photographic styles. Sudek pushed boundaries in his work and advocated that photography broke away from the then dominant 'painterly' style; this led to a local camera club expelling him from school. Sudek is often described as a modernist photographer, but this only applies to a few years in the 1930s, when he dabbled in commercial photography. included contributions to the illustrated Prague weekly Pestrý týden and therefore worked in the style of that time. However, his personal photography can better be characterized as neo-romantic. His early work included many series of lights falling into the interior of St. Vitus Cathedral. During and after World War II, Sudek created haunting nightscapes and panoramas of Prague, photographing the wooded landscape of Bohemia and the window pane leading to his garden. He then photographed the busy interior of his studio. In recent years his work has been regularly reproduced in books, making his work among the most accessible to those interested in twentieth-century Czech photography. In 1984, Sudek was posthumously inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum. Anna Fárová was a Czech art historian who specialized and cataloged Czech and Czechoslovak photographers, including Frantisek Drtikol and Josef Sudek. She was one of the pioneers who wrote about the history of photography. Her publishing activities helped establish photography as an art discipline in the country. The current work chronicles the photographer's life from his early years in Bohemia, his time in the war, his journey as a photographer and Sudek's most important series of work. The photographs reproduced here are accompanied by Fárová's sympathetic and sensitive prose and excerpts from letters written by Sudek himself. Her publishing activities helped establish photography as an art discipline in the country. The current work chronicles the photographer's life from his early years in Bohemia, his time in the war, his journey as a photographer and Sudek's most important series of work. The photographs reproduced here are accompanied by Fárová's sympathetic and sensitive prose and excerpts from letters written by Sudek himself. Her publishing activities helped establish photography as an art discipline in the country. The current work chronicles the photographer's life from his early years in Bohemia, his time in the war, his journey as a photographer and Sudek's most important series of work. The photographs reproduced here are accompanied by Fárová's sympathetic and sensitive prose and excerpts from letters written by Sudek himself.
ConditionVery goodColorsGoldMaterialPaperNumber of items1StyleVintageHeight35 cmWidth27 cmDepth4 cm