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| Sudek's photography is sometimes said to be modernist. Primarily, his personal photography is neo-romantic. |
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| Josef Sudek |
| Josef Sudek (March 17, 1896, Kolín, Bohemia - September 15, 1976) was a Czech photographer, best known for his haunting night-scapes of
Prague. |
| Originally a bookbinder, Sudek was badly injured during action by the Hungarian Army on the Italian Front of World War I in 1916. Although he
had no experience with photography and was one-handed due to his amputation, he was given a camera and studied photography for two years
in Prague under 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. |
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