Josef Sudek: Labyrinths |
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By (photographer):
| Sudek, Josef |
Text by:
| Hodrová, Daniela Dufek, Antonín |
ISBN: | 978-80-7215-437-1 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2014 |
Publisher: | TORST
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $60.00 |
Book Description:
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Like the previous volumes
The Window of My Studioand
Still Lifes, this new Josef Sudek monograph collects a series of photographs made within the confines of the Czech photographer's workspace. Sudek's studio famously verged on installation art, as the poet Jaroslav Seifert recalled: "Breton's surrealism would have come into its own there. A drawing by Jan Zrzavy lay rolled up by a bottle of nitric acid, which stood on a plate where there was a crust of bread and a piece...
More DescriptionLike the previous volumes The Window of My Studioand Still Lifes, this new Josef Sudek monograph collects a series of photographs made within the confines of the Czech photographer's workspace. Sudek's studio famously verged on installation art, as the poet Jaroslav Seifert recalled: "Breton's surrealism would have come into its own there. A drawing by Jan Zrzavy lay rolled up by a bottle of nitric acid, which stood on a plate where there was a crust of bread and a piece of smoked meat with a bite taken out of it. And above this hung the wing of a Baroque angel with Sudek's beret hanging from it.... This disorder was so picturesque, so immensely rich, that it almost came close to being a strange but highly subtle work of art." Gathered here in all their surreal beauty, the Labyrinths series depicts multilayered assemblages of objects in endlessly permutated combinations.