Jan Saudek

Jan Saudek,Jan Saudek

Jan Saudek
Jan Saudek

Photographs: Jan Saudek

Publisher: Slovart

448 pages

Year: 2014

Comments: Hardcover under illustrated dust jacket, 30 by 25,5cm, heavy book, reprint of the 2005 edition. In very good condition!

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Jan Saudek is the most famous living Czech photographer, and simultaneously the most provocative. For over four decades Saudek has created a parallel photographic universe, a two-dimensional home full of longing, peopled with the most extraordinary characters and colored by desire. The timeless strength of his hand-tinted photographs lies in their poetic compositions and their forceful pictorial language, with its overtones of medieval genre pictures and Baroque mythology. Rejecting the traditional beauty in his famous nude photographs, Saudek shows the distinctively different: old women, fat women, children; real people in tableaux vivants that remind us of everything from surreal early movies to fin-de-siecle carnival nights. They exist outside time, a uniquely colored and almost mythical theater of dreams. Covering his debut in the 1950s through his lesser-known work to recent images, this dazzling collection offers us the true velvet revolution fertile and unsettling images from the dreams we might still have.


Jan Saudek,Jan Saudek

Jan Saudek,Jan Saudek

Jan Saudek,Jan Saudek

Jan Saudek,Jan Saudek

Jan Saudek,Jan Saudek

Jan Saudek,Jan Saudek

Jan Saudek,Jan Saudek

Jan Saudek,Jan Saudek

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