portfolio 5

Joseph Sudek
10 Photographs 1940–1966

Portfolio 1982

JOSEF SUDEK (1896–1976)

Labyrinth of Glass, c. 1960-1970

gelatin silver print, printed 1982

28,5 x 23,5 cm

© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1982 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

JOSEF SUDEK (1896–1976)

Bread, Egg and Glass, 1950

gelatin silver print, printed 1982

15,5 x 11,7 cm

© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1982 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

JOSEF SUDEK (1896–1976)

from "The Window of my Atelier“, 1940-1954

gelatin silver print, printed 1982

27 x 23 cm

© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1982 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

JOSEF SUDEK (1896–1976)

The Last Rose, 1966

gelatin silver print, printed 1982

27 x 20 cm

© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1982 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

JOSEF SUDEK (1896–1976)

The Painter Václav Sivko, 1955

gelatin silver print, printed 1982

17,7 x 13 cm

© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1982 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

JOSEF SUDEK (1896–1976)

The Magic Garden, 1954-1959

gelatin silver print, printed 1982

8 x 11 cm

© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1982 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

JOSEF SUDEK (1896–1976)

After a Summer Shower, 1954-1959

gelatin silver print, printed 1982

17 x 12,5 cm

© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1982 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

JOSEF SUDEK (1896–1976)

Walk on Kampa Island, 1947

gelatin silver print, printed 1982

9 x 29 cm

© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1982 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

JOSEF SUDEK (1896–1976)

Walk on the Bank of the Elbe, c. 1960

gelatin silver print, printed 1982

6 x 14 cm

© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1982 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

JOSEF SUDEK (1896–1976)

Sunday Afternoon, 1950-1956

gelatin silver print, printed 1982

28,5 x 22,5 cm

© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1982 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

 

Biography
1896 born in Kolin, Bohemia. 1911–1913 learns trade of bookbinding; first attempts at photography. 1915–1920 military service, right arm wounded and amputated; decides to become photographer. 1920 becomes member of Amateur Photography Club. 1922 studies photography with Karel Novak at School of Graphic Arts in Prague. 1924 founder, with Jaromír Funke and other avant-garde photographers, of the Czech Photographic Society. 1924–1928 series "Contrasts" on reconstruction of St. Vitus Cathedral; earns title of Official Photographer of the City of Prague. 1928–1936 commercial work in his studio, landscapes and views of Prague with Moholy-Nagy, Heartfield, Man Ray, Rodchenko and others. 1940–1945 discovers contact printing and ceases to enlarge; continues panorama of Prague and countryside, begins "Window of my Atelier" series, "Labyrinths". 1945–1960 photographs "The Magic Garden" and "The Garden of the Lady Sculptor" series. Died in 1976.

The portfolio contains ten photographs printed from the original glass plate negatives under the supervision of Anna Fárová. It is published in a limited edition of fifty numbered copies and five artist's proofs in Roman numerals. The photographs have been printed on Neogas Special, Neovere Extra and Brom Extra papers and archivally processed.