#Josef Sudek

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Sádrová hlava (Plaster Head), Josef Sudek, 1945

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[psikonauti]

Josef Sudek (Czech,1896-1976)

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[gacougnol]

Josef Sudek

Hagia Sophia

Istanbul, 1954

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[arinewman7]

Bud of a White Rose

Photography by Josef Sudek

gelatin silver print, 1954

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[henk-heijmans]

Prague at night, 1950s - by Josef Sudek (1896 - 1976), Czech

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[more-than-ideas]

Josef Sudek  | Still Life with a Lily of the Valley (1940~54)

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[nobrashfestivity]

Josef Sudek

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[joeinct]

In the Magic Garden, Photo by Josef Sudek, c. 1955

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[hauntedbystorytelling]

Josef Sudek (1896-1976) ~ The Window of My Studio, 1940-54 | src Gitterman Gallery ~ Czech Avant-Garde 2023

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[yama-bato]

JOSEF SUDEK (1896–1976), Apples, 1950s | Christie's

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[kafkasapartment]

Siesta (A Walk in the Magic Garden), 1954. Josef Sudek. Gelatin silver.

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[fadedday]

Photography by Josef Sudek

Nude study, 1951-1954

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[psikonauti]

Josef Sudek (Czech,1896-1976)

Prague at Night, ca. 1954-74

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[gacougnol]

Josef Sudek

A Walk in the Garden of a Lady Sculptor 1953-57

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[odetopictorialism]

Bohdan Kopecký (Czech Artist , born in 1928) Josef Sudek photographs Prague, 1950.

Josef Sudek (1896-1976) was born in the Czech Republic. Originally a bookbinder, he was badly injured during World War I, resulting in a partial amputation of his right arm (that's why he needed assistance with his activities, and after World War II, he hired an assistant, Sonja Bullaty, a young Czech Jew who survived the Nazi concentration camps. It was Bullaty who took Sudek's work outside the Iron Curtain and preserved over 300 selections of his prints that he continued to send to her after she emigrated to America... And yes, she's the girl in the photo.)

In the 1920's he studied photography for two years in Prague under Jaromir Funke and worked primarily in the Pictorialist style. Eventually a local camera club expelled him for arguing about the need to move forward from "Painterly" photography and he then founded the progressive "Czech Photographic Society" in 1924. During and after World War II, Sudek created haunting night-scapes and panoramas of Prague, photographed the wooded landscape of Bohemia, and the window-glass that led to his garden (the famous "The Window of My Atelier" Series.")

Sudek's individualism did not fit in with the new post-war Czech Socialist Republic (Sudek never married, and was a shy, introverted person. He never appeared at his exhibit openings and few people appear in his photographs. Also notable is the fact that despite the privations of the war and Communism, he kept a renowned record collection of classical music) but the strong artistic tradition of the country meant that there were many who supported his work. He was the first photographer to be honored by the Republic with the title of "Artist of Merit" and in his 70th year, his life's work was recognized by the "Order of Labor."

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[henk-heijmans]

Self-portrait, 1964 - by Josef Sudek (1896 - 1976), Czech

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