Josef Sudek

Exhibition catalogue on the big Czech photographer

93 pages, soft bound, texts in English
ISBN 978-952-5371-12-3
Publisher Alvar Aalto Foundation (2003)

Description

The Czech photographer Josef Sudek is considered to be one of the big names in modern experimental photography. Josef Sudek and Alvar Aalto were contemporaries: they never met, but they both lived in an artistic world that was ashtonishingly similar all over Europe.

Trough the mediation of their friend Lázló Moholy-Nagy, Alvar and Aino Aalto adopted a new way of looking through the lens of the camera. Tilted perspectives, a still-life approach, and playing with light and shade link them to Sudek, whose prints are given an aura of authenticity and a feeling of elapsed time by dust and hairs, scratches and torn background fabric.

Also includes a biography of Josef Sudek.