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Date of death. 1976. Josef Sudek was a Czech photographer best known for his poetic black-and-white images of Prague and intimate still lifes taken in and around his studio. Born in 1896 in Kolín, Czech Republic, Sudek apprenticed as a bookbinder, but after being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I he was severely wounded ...
Sudek was born in Kolín, Bohemia. He was originally a bookbinder. During the First World War he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1915 and served on the Italian Front until he was wounded in the right arm in 1916 which led to the limb being amputated at the shoulder. After the war he studied photography for two years in Prague ...
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Dec 1, 2016 · Known as the Poet of Prague for his lyrical views of Bohemia’s capital, Josef Sudek was one of the 20th century’s most important and prolific photographers, and a key figure in the Czech avant-garde scene of the 1920s and 1930s. The Intimate World of Josef Sudek, currently on view at the Canadian Photography Institute (CPI) of the National Gallery of Canada, is the first major show to ...
Josef Sudek. Josef Sudek (March 17, 1896 – September 15, 1976) was a renowned Czech photographer, dubbed the "Poet of Prague." Born when Bohemia was a kingdom in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he learned bookbinding, but after his 1916 World War I injury, which led to the amputation of his right arm, he took up photography.
May 5, 2019 · 2019. Museum of Architecture in Wrocław. Bernardyńska Street 5, 50156 Wrocław, Poland. In 1945, immediately after the end of the Second World War, Josef Sudek (1896–1976) took to the streets of Prague to document the damage sustained by the city. This endeavor produced a unique series of almost four hundred photographs, both documentary ...
Jan 13, 2017 · The imagery is so delicate and gentle that Josef Sudek has come to be dubbed ‘The Poet of Prague’. In the early 1950s, he purchased an 1894 Kodak Panorama camera which produced panoramic images in the stark proportions of 1 to 3, and used it to make almost 300 stunning panoramas of Prague. The images were published in the book Praha ...
Mar 14, 2019 · Czech photographer Josef Sudek, known as the ‘Poet of Prague’, was drawn to desolate landscapes, simple, solitary objects and the quiet, unpopulated street scenes of Prague, a city to which he dedicated his whole life.
