PRAHA - CESKOSLOVENSKO Natural Artistic and Historical Monuments
Josef Sudek,
Karel Baxa,
Cyril Merhout, 
Texts in Czech with summaries in French, English and German.


Book Description: Praha: Melantrich A.S., 1929, 1929 (Prague). Original tan cloth with reverse tan lettering on orange on cover and spine and additional orange lettering on cover and spine. Sudek's first monograph with 120 photogravures: First edition, text and captions in Czech, English, French and German. 

One Volume with 120 photogravures by master Josef Sudek (1896-1976) divided into 7 parts based on Prague locations, with associated text: 
  • Hrad/Castle, 
  • Chram Sv.Vita/St.Vitus Cathedral, 
  • Mala strana a Hradcany/Mala Strana and Hradcany, 
  • Stare mesto/The Old Town,
  • Nove mesto a Vysehrad/The New Town, Vysehrad, 
  • Moderni cast/Modern Prague, 
  • Predmesti a okoli Prahy/The Suburbs, the Surroundings of Prague. 

Book Condition: Very Good with some soil to covers, inside is remarkably clean, illustrations remain remarkably deep and beautiful. 

Reference: Josef Sudek: The Legacy of a Deeper Vision, September 15, 2012 by Maia-Mari Sutnik (Editor)

Additional Information: Josef Sudek was originally a bookbinder. During World War I, he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1915 and served on the Italian Front until he was wounded in the right arm in 1916. Although he had no experience with photography and was one-handed due to his amputation, he was given a camera. After the war he studied photography for two years in Prague under Master Jaromir Funke. His Army disability pension gave him leeway to make art, and he worked during the 1920s in the romantic Pictorialist style. Always pushing at the boundaries, a local camera club expelled him for arguing about the need to move forwards from 'painterly' photography. Sudek then founded the progressive Czech Photographic Society in 1924. Despite only having one arm, he used large, bulky cameras with the aid of assistants and is viewed as one of the great photographic innovators and master.

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