Josef Sudek, poet of Prague : a photographer's life / biographical profile by Anna Farova.

Main entry:

Fárová, Anna, author.

Title & Author:

Josef Sudek, poet of Prague : a photographer's life / biographical profile by Anna Farova.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Aperture, [1990]
©1990

Description:

159 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
Published to accompany the exhibition organized by the Alfred Stieglitz Center of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 3 -May 6, 1990; North Carolina Museum of Art, October 20 - December 30, 1990; Toledo Museum of Art, March 7 - May 3, 1992; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, September 12 - December 6, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references (page 156).

Summary:

In a career that spanned nearly seven decades, Josef Sudek, one of the masters of twentieth-century photography, created his own solitary world of shadow and light, of theme and variation. Exquisitely reproduced in tritone, the more than one hundred images in this monograph convey the spirit of Prague as well as the spirit of Sudek. The photographs are complemented with a text by Anna Farova, one of the foremost photography curators and writers in Eastern Europe and a longtime friend of Sudek's. She traces his life and work, beginning with the devastation of World War I, in which he lost an arm, through his development as a photographer and a central figure in Prague's artistic life. Sudek's passionate, impressionist images, as well as his penchant for exploration, earned him the affectionate title "Poet of Prague."

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0893813869 clothbound
9780893813864 clothbound
0893814326 paperbound
9780893814328 paperbound
0893814180 museum catalog edition
9780893814182 museum catalog edition

Subject:

Sudek, Josef, 1896-1976 Exhibitions.
Sudek, Josef, 1896-1976
Sudek, Josef 1896-1976
Sudek, Josef.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photography, Artistic
Fotografie
Ausstellung
Sudek, Josef Exhibitions

Form/genre:

Ausstellung Philadelphia (Pa.) 1990.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Sudek, Josef, 1896-1976, photographer.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, organizer, host institution.
North Carolina Museum of Art, host institution.
Toledo Museum of Art, host institution.
High Museum of Art, host institution.
Aperture Foundation, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room photo 188519
Call No.: TR140.S943 F36 1990
Status: Available

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