View of Prague

Josef Sudek's most famous works are photographs of Prague - a city he was associated with in his whole life - especially a series of photographs presenting the renovation of the St. Vitus Cathedral in Hradčany, taken at the end of the 1920s, and the 'My Studio Window' cycle created in 1940-54. Sudek's photographs are considered to be classical specimens of the Czech photography and Sudek himself - one of the greatest Czech photographers. Sudek's photographic works bear traces of pictorialism but in the 1930s the artist changed his style - his compositions became more austere and poetic. In the 1940s, Sudek stopped using an enlarger and started making contact prints from large-format negatives. He used that technique to create his most personal works - unusual still nature photographs. In the 1970s, Sudek gained international recognition, primarily in the United States of America, as one of the greatest representatives of subjectivation of contemporary photography. Sudek's individual exhibitions took place in George Eastman House, ICP, and Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris.

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