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SUDEK, Josef (1896-1976, photographer) and Lubomir LINHART. Josef Sudek Fotografie. Prague: The State Press for Belles-Lettres, Music and Art, 1956.
8° (237 x 167mm). Photogravure portrait frontispiece after Josef Ehm and 232 photogravures after Sudek on 113 sheets, 6 folding. Original cloth, lettered in relief on the upper cover and spine, fabric marker, original dustwrapper (dustrapper a little spotted). Provenance: Alena Ladová (b.1925, presentation inscription on title, 'Praha 1956 , v prosinci , vokolo , Mikuláse , Fesande , Ladovence , uprímne , podepisuje , Sudekl' ['Prague December 1956 about the feast of St Nicholas for the smart little Ladova signed sincerely Sudek']).
FIRST EDITION. A RARE PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY SUDEK TO THE BOOK ILLUSTRATOR ALENA LADOVá, daughter of the artist Josef Lada (1887-1957). Josef Sudek Fotografie was published to commemorate the sixtieth birthday of one of the most important 20th-century Czechoslovakian photographers. Sudek started to take photographs as an amateur in the years before the Great War, in which he served and was wounded, losing his right arm. During his convalescence he started to take photographs again, eventually studying at the State School of Graphic Art from 1922-1924 under Karel Novak and moving in avant-garde circles. Although his reputation was swiftly established in the 1930s by exhibitions in Czechoslovakia--for example the 1936 International Exhibition of Photography in Prague, which included work by Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy and Rodchenko--he became increasingly reclusive during the Second World War and the post-war era, although he continued to publish his photographs in works such as Vitezslav Nezval's Praha (Prague: 1948). As a consequence, his work was relatively unknown in Western Europe or America until a series of retrospective exhibitions in the 1970s created renewed interest and appreciation.
The present copy is distinguished by Sudek's inscription to the illustrator Alena Ladová; due to the loss of his right hand, books signed or inscribed by Sudek are particularly scarce.
Only one signed and one inscribed book by Sudek are recorded at auction by ABPC since 1975. Roosens and Salu History of Photography A Bibliography of Books 10223.
8° (237 x 167mm). Photogravure portrait frontispiece after Josef Ehm and 232 photogravures after Sudek on 113 sheets, 6 folding. Original cloth, lettered in relief on the upper cover and spine, fabric marker, original dustwrapper (dustrapper a little spotted). Provenance: Alena Ladová (b.1925, presentation inscription on title, 'Praha 1956 , v prosinci , vokolo , Mikuláse , Fesande , Ladovence , uprímne , podepisuje , Sudekl' ['Prague December 1956 about the feast of St Nicholas for the smart little Ladova signed sincerely Sudek']).
FIRST EDITION. A RARE PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY SUDEK TO THE BOOK ILLUSTRATOR ALENA LADOVá, daughter of the artist Josef Lada (1887-1957). Josef Sudek Fotografie was published to commemorate the sixtieth birthday of one of the most important 20th-century Czechoslovakian photographers. Sudek started to take photographs as an amateur in the years before the Great War, in which he served and was wounded, losing his right arm. During his convalescence he started to take photographs again, eventually studying at the State School of Graphic Art from 1922-1924 under Karel Novak and moving in avant-garde circles. Although his reputation was swiftly established in the 1930s by exhibitions in Czechoslovakia--for example the 1936 International Exhibition of Photography in Prague, which included work by Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy and Rodchenko--he became increasingly reclusive during the Second World War and the post-war era, although he continued to publish his photographs in works such as Vitezslav Nezval's Praha (Prague: 1948). As a consequence, his work was relatively unknown in Western Europe or America until a series of retrospective exhibitions in the 1970s created renewed interest and appreciation.
The present copy is distinguished by Sudek's inscription to the illustrator Alena Ladová; due to the loss of his right hand, books signed or inscribed by Sudek are particularly scarce.
Only one signed and one inscribed book by Sudek are recorded at auction by ABPC since 1975. Roosens and Salu History of Photography A Bibliography of Books 10223.
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