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Jan Saudek (b. 13 May 1935, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech art photographer. May 13 is the 133rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (134th in leap years). ...
1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Fine art photography, sometimes simply called art photography, refers to high-quality archival photographic prints of pictures that are created to fulfill the creative vision of an individual professional. ...
Many of his family died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II. Jan and his brother Karel were held in a children's concentration camp near the Polish border. He survived the war and worked for a printer starting in 1950. After completing his military service, he was inspired in 1963 by Steichen's Family of Man to try to become a serious art photographer. In 1969 he traveled to the United States and was encouraged in his work by curator Hugh Edwards. Returning to Prague, he was forced to work in a clandestine manner in a cellar, to avoid the attentions of the secret police, as his work turned to themes of personal erotic freedom, and used implicitly political symbols of corruption and innocence. From the late 1970s he gradually became recognised in the West as the leading Czech photographer, and also developed a following among photographers in his own country. In 1983 the first book on his work was published in the English-speaking world. Following this, in 1984 the Communist authorities allowed him to cease working in a factory, and gave him permission to apply for a permit to work as an artist. In 1987 the archives of his negatives were seized by the police, but later returned. Location of the concentration camp in the Czech Republic Gate Concentration camp Theresienstadt was a concentration camp set up by the Gestapo in the fortress and garrison city TerezÃn (German name Theresienstadt), located in what is now the Czech Republic. ...
Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...
Edward Steichen (March 27, 1879-March 25, 1973) was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator, born in Luxembourg. ...
Hugh Edwards (1903 - 1986). ...
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His work is noted for its hand-tinted portrayal of painterly dream worlds, often inhabited by nude or semi-nude figures surrounded by bare plaster walls or painted backdrops. In this they echo the studio and tableaux work of nineteenth century erotic photographers, the painter Balthus, and the work of Bernard Faucon. Another photographer which can be noted for a similar aproach to composition and theme is Joel-Peter Witkin. His early art photography is noted for its evocation of childhood. His work was the subject of attempts at censorship in the West during the 1990s. Tableau vivant, Folies Bergères c. ...
Balthazar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 in Paris – February 18, 2001) was an esteemed Polish/French modern artist whose work was ultimately anti-modern. ...
Bernard Faucon (b. ...
Joel-Peter Witkin Joel-Peter Witkin (born September 13, 1939, in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American photographer. ...
Saudek currently lives and works in Prague. His brother is also an artist, and is now the best-known Czech graphic novelist. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Sabre (1978), one of the first graphic novels. ...
Books
- Jan Saudek[1] (1998, Taschen) ISBN 3-8228-7916-9
Taschen is an art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany. ...
Films - Jan Saudek: Prague Printemps (1990). (26-minute film by Jerome de Missolz about Saudek).
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