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JOSEF SUDEK: SAINT VITUS’S CATHEDRAL
TORST
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ISBN: 9788072153862 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 4/30/2011 | In stock

JOSEF SUDEK: THE UNKNOWN
KANT
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ISBN: 9788086970226 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 8/31/2011 | Awaiting stock

JOSEF SUDEK: THE ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHS
TORST
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ISBN: 9788072153428 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 4/1/2009 | In stock

JOSEF SUDEK: STILL LIFES
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ISBN: 9788072153435 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 10/1/2008 | In stock

JOSEF SUDEK: ANCIENT FOREST OF THE BESKIDS
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ISBN: 9788072153442 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 4/30/2011 | In stock

JOSEF SUDEK: THE WINDOW OF MY STUDIO
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ISBN: 9788072153152 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 3/1/2008 | Awaiting stock

JOSEF SUDEK: PORTRAITS
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ISBN: 9788072153190 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 3/1/2008 | In stock

JOSEF SUDEK: POET OF PRAGUE
APERTURE
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ISBN: 9780893813864 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 6/15/2005 | Awaiting stock

JOSEF SUDEK
TORST
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ISBN: 9788072151820 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 10/2/2003 | Awaiting stock

Josef Sudek

Josef Sudek: Saint Vitus’s Cathedral

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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 Vít.

JOSEF SUDEK: SAINT VITUS’S CATHEDRAL
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Josef Sudek: The Advertising Photographs

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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 superfluous. In this volume, Sudek's striking commercial portfolio is presented for the first time. The book includes an introduction by Czech Modern art historian Vojtech Lahoda, as well as a complete bibliography.
In 1978, Sonja Bullaty-a former student of Sudek's-edited the first monograph of his work, which firmly established his reputation as one of the great photographers of the twentieth century. That volume was unrivaled prior to the publication of this monograph, which, in concert with two other concurrently published books, creates the most extensive compilation of Sudek's work to date.

JOSEF SUDEK: THE ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHS
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Josef Sudek: Still Lifes

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From the mid-1920s until his death in 1976, Czech photographer Joseph Sudek shot Gothic and Baroque architecture, street scenes and still lifes--usually leaving the frame free of people and capturing a poetic and highly individualistic glimpse of Prague. The still lifes are the best known aspect of his oeuvre; indeed, his graceful depictions of drinking-glasses and eggs are familiar to those who don't necessarily even know his name. Acceding to his reclusive nature, Sudek began The Window of My Studio series in the 1940s. It allowed him to capture street scenes without going outside and helped him discover a particular fondness for how glass refracts light. The still lifes emerged from the informal arrangements Sudek would make on his windowsill, and occupied him for a number of years. Depicting a range of quotidian objects with a marked artfulness--some were made in homage to favorite painters like Caravaggio--the series deserves a deeper look. This volume is the first in-depth study of Sudek's still lifes and also explores his creative use of carbon printing--a pigment process on rag paper not often used photographically--which lent so many of his images such extraordinary depth and warmth.

JOSEF SUDEK: STILL LIFES
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Josef Sudek: Ancient Forest of the Beskids

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The series of photographs that Joseph Sudek created in the Mionsí Forest of Morovia's Beskid Mountains is perhaps the most classically Romantic and visually stunning body of work ever made by this important Czech photographer. In the late 1920s, while shooting the interior of Prague's iconic Cathedral of St. Vitus during its final phase of completion, Sudek learned a great deal about light. Years later, alone, deep in the virgin forest, he lay in wait for the light that he knew would lend the ancient trees their ghostly aspect--finding graceful compositions in isolated wilderness. Photography historian Antonín Dufek penned the introduction to this volume, which is the first to present such a comprehensive set of Sudek's photographs of the Mionsí Forest, the ruins surrounding Hukvaldy castle and the foothills of the Beskids.
Josef Sudek, born in 1896 in Kolín, was a bookbinder and amateur photographer for several years before studying at the State School of Graphic Arts with Karel Novak. Along with a handful of other young Modernists, he founded the Czech Photographic Society in 1924. While maintaining a successful commercial career, Sudek nurtured a lifelong, Romantic fascination with light and mood. He died at the age of 80 in 1976.

JOSEF SUDEK: ANCIENT FOREST OF THE BESKIDS
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Josef Sudek: Portraits

Text by Jan Rezác.
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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 in the future.) Decades later, after he had cofounded the Czech Photographic Society in 1924 and established his signature neo-Romantic preoccupation with architectural Prague, he returned to the genre. Throughout the 1940s and 50s, Sudek photographed close friends, among them the poet and Nobel Laureate Jaroslav Seifert, many painters and writers, but also scientists, doctors, politicians, architects, actors and other important public figures in Czechoslovakia. Portraits, the second volume of Sudek's collected photographs, gathers this body of work. In addition to a chronology of Sudek's life, it includes a complete bibliography and list of his exhibitions, as well as an interview with Jan Rezác, Sudek's colleague and an expert on his work.

JOSEF SUDEK: PORTRAITS
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