Josef Sudek: So-called Fine Art Photography

Josef Sudek: So-called Fine Art Photography

We would like to draw your attention to the new exhibition in the Windows Gallery of the IAH CAS from 23 September 2020. The exhibition entitled 'Josef Sudek: So-called Fine Art Photography' is being organised within the Photograph-Festival and held until 13 December 2020. The guided tour with the curator Hana Buddeus takes place on 14 October 2020.

After the death of Josef Sudek (1896–1976), Božena Sudková donated a collection of more than 20,000 negatives and original photographs by Sudek to the Institute of Art History of the CAS. Thematically, the collection includes a broad spectrum of reproductions of art works (including applied art and architecture), starting with fist wedges, Greek and Roman Antiquity through Czech Romanesque art, the Gothic, Baroque and 19th Century through the art of Sudek's contemporaries.

In some cases, photographs, which do not depict artistic works, were marked as so-called fine art photography and most likely ended up in the collection dedicated to the Institute of Art History by mistake, or we have not yet been able to find any more specific information about them. The exhibition works with this fact, it presents photographs, for which it is difficult to find a justification for their presence in the collection of photographs of works of art, they are usually not dated or described in any way.

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