Josef Sudek: So-called Fine Art Photography

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Window Gallery, UDU

Artists

Josef Sudek

Kurátorka

Hana Buddeus

Duration

23/9–13/12 2020

After Sudek’s death, Božena Sudková donated a collection of over twenty thousand negatives and photographs by Josef Sudek to the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The collection includes a broad range of photographs of artworks (including applied art and architecture), beginning with hand axes and ancient Greek and Roman works, through Czech Romanesque art, works from the Gothic period, the Baroque, and the 19th century, all the way to Sudek’s contemporaries.

The term – Fine Art Photography appears as one of the keywords used to describe the photographs which do not portray works of art and whose inclusion in the collection donated to the Institute of Art History was probably accidental. The exhibition explores this mistake, presenting photographs whose presence in a collection of artwork photography is hard to justify. They are neither dated nor labelled.

The Fotograf Festival is organised by the Fotograf 07 z.s., and held under the auspices of the Mayor of Prague, and with the support of the City Council of Prague (400 000 CZK), the Czech Ministry of Culture and State Fund of Culture.

Mediální partneři / Medial partners