Although the Czech photographer Josef Sudek was mildly reclusive by temperament, and although his photography is commonly characterized as unpeopled (in favor of what he termed -the inanimate life of objects-), a sizable portion of his oeuvre is given over to portraits. In fact, the beginnings of Sudek's work are in portraiture, in his images of fellow patients at the veteran's hospital where he spent three years after the First World War. (It was here that Sudek's right arm was amputated after a battlefield injury, a misfortune which did not prevent him from using heavy, large-format cameras...
Although the Czech photographer Josef Sudek was mildly reclusive by temperament, and although his photography is commonly characterized as unpeopled (...
Další ze svazků knižních vydání fotografických cyklů Josefa Sudka. Fotografie beskydského pralesa v Mionší patří k nejpřitažlivějším, nejtajemnějším i nejromantičtějším Sudkovým fotografickým cyklům. Tajemný prales Sudka fascinoval svou jedinečnou vizualitou, která ve spojení se světlem vytvářela zcela jedinečné konfigurace. V tomto cyklu se naplno projevil Sudkův zájem o stromy, který dal vzniknout...
Další ze svazků knižních vydání fotografických cyklů Josefa Sudka. Fotografie beskydského pra...
Josef Sudek (1896-1976) was Prague's Atget. From the mid-1920s until his death in 1976, Sudek photographed everything--the Gothic and Baroque architecture, the streets and objects--usually leaving the frame free of people. Because he was reclusive, a large portion of Sudek's work was captured through his studio window: he was particularly fond of how the glass refracted light. The Window of My Studio series, spanning from the beginning of the Second World War to the first half of the 1950s, presents the series, which was of fundamental importance to Sudek, for it caused his work to...
Josef Sudek (1896-1976) was Prague's Atget. From the mid-1920s until his death in 1976, Sudek photographed everything--the Gothic and Baroque architec...