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Čtvrtý svazek knižní řady Sudkových fotografických cyklů představuje jeho zakázkovou tvorbu. Historik umění Vojtěch Lahoda ve svém doprovodném textu ukazuje vývoj Sudkova vztahu k reklamní fotografii, zdůrazňuje klíčové Sudkovo setkání s Družstevní prací a Ladislavem Sutnarem a ukazuje, jak v mnoha případech Sudkovy snímky vznikající na zakázku volně přecházely v jeho volnou tvorbu. Sudek vytvářel na svých snímcích ze skleněných předmětů abstraktní kompozice, pracoval s neobvyklými úhly pohledu i se světlem. Sám si své reklamní práce...

Czech photographer Josef Sudek, who is best known for his moody, Romantic shots of still lifes and street scenes, was an influential advertising pioneer. Though this commercial aspect of his oeuvre is often overlooked, he collaborated with designer Ladislav Sutnar and architect Otto Rothmayer to create striking ads that rival the work of better-known contemporaries. This aspect of his career was short lived, however. The nationalization of privately owned businesses in Czechoslovakia at the end of the Second World War, coupled with the Communist takeover of 1948, made advertising largely...

Saint Vitus's Cathedral is the sixth volume in Torst's Josef Sudek: Works series. This volume is the first to compile Sudek's photos of St. Vitus's Cathedral, the spiritual and cultural heart of the Czech Republic, from various periods of Sudek's work. It includes photos that he lovingly prepared for a book that was ultimately never published, titled Svat Vit.

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...