Turn off more accessible mode. Skip Ribbon Commands. Skip to main content. Turn off Animations. Turn on Animations. It looks like your browser does not have JavaScript enabled. Please turn on JavaScript and try again. Collections Menu. Image Coming Soon. Jan Saudek. View All Works. After a traumatic youth he discovered photography as a means of expression and explores human relationships and constructs elaborately detailed scenes of human interaction.
Saudek continues to live and work in the Czech Republic. Selected Books on. Jan Saudek, Christiane Fricke. Johannes Faber Gallery. Jan Saudek's Video. Selected Books. Publisher : Publisher : Slovart Publishing, Ltd. Jan Saudek is the most famous living Czech photographer, and simultaneously the most provocative.
For over four decades Saudek has created a parallel photographic universe, a two-dimensional home full of longing, peopled with the most extraordinary characters and colored by desire. The timeless strength of his hand-tinted photographs lies in their poetic compositions and their forceful pictorial language, with its overtones of medieval genre pictures and Baroque mythology.
More Info Available on. By Jan Saudek, Christiane Fricke. Publisher : Publisher : Taschen. The theater of sensual dreams The Czech Republic has long been a land of mystery and magic, home to alchemists, artists, and the original bohemians, all of them weavers of spells, creators of fantastic worlds of the imagination.
Internationally famous Czech photographer Jan Saudek is no exception, and equally as uncompromising in pursuit of his own unique vision. The timeless strength of his hand-tinted photographs lies in their poetic compositions and their forceful?
Rejecting the traditional beauty in his famous nude photographs, Saudek shows the distinctively different: old women, fat women, children; real people in tableaux vivants that remind us of everything from surreal early movies to fin-de-siecle carnival nights. They exist outside time, a uniquely colored and almost mythical theater of dreams. Covering his debut in the s through his lesser-known work to recent images, this dazzling collection offers us the true ""velvet revolution,"" fertile and unsettling images from the dreams we might still have.
The author: Daniela Mr? She has been a member of international juries, and has authored film and television documentaries on photography and photographers.
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In , one year after relocating to the U. He has since completed several projects which have been exhibited in several galleries and museums in Brazil and the USA. As part of a long term project, Cypriano began to document traditional lifestyles and practices of lesser known societies in remote corners of the world with a slant toward the unique and unusual.
His ongoing projects have been used in educational workshops. Read More. Journalist and photographer. Since she has been working as a freelance reporter and photographer focused on war zones. She has worked in a number of African countries, including conflict zones of Democratic Republic of Congo. She visited Afghanistan several times, as well as Somalia, plagued by several decades of war.
She has won a number of prizes and nominations in the Czech Press Photo competition - both for photography and video. She is the co-author of nine books about Africa and about the wars in the Middle East and Nagorno Karabakh. In September , war broke out in Nagorno Karabakh.
Statement Twelve years ago I first came to a war zone, to the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. My goal was to document the drastic effects of the protracted war on women. The local militias are committing mass rape of women and children; rape is a weapon of war. It was my first encounter with war. I understood that I wanted to bear witness to the injustices of this world, the way they fall on innocent victims who have nothing to do with them.
I returned to the Congo several times and started working in Afghanistan. Then the war in Syria and Iraq started. I spent six years traveling to these areas watching and documenting how the Islamic State terrifies the world.
And how it is gradually being defeated with the generous contribution of the Syrian Kurds. The city of Kobani, the center of the Kurds, has been indelibly engraved in my heart, defending itself against the enormous superiority of the Islamists.
At the cost of high casualties. I have been on the front lines, in refugee camps, documenting the lives of the wives of ISIS fighters and their children. I managed to get in the prison where ISIS fighters who survived the fighting are being held. When the war broke out in Nagorno Karabakh, I knew I had to go there immediately. I followed the war to the end and documented the lives of civilians sentenced to live suddenly in a war zone.
I saw their exodus. War zones have thus become a part of my life Lost War. Joseph Koudelka. Josef Koudelka was born in in Boskovice, Moravia. He began photographing his family and the surroundings with a 6 x 6 Bakelite camera. He staged his first photographic exhibition the same year. Later he worked as an aeronautical engineer in Prague and Bratislava.
He began taking commissions from theatre magazines, and regularly photographed stage productions at Prague's Theatre Behind the Gate on a Rolleiflex camera. In , Koudelka decided to give up his career in engineering for full-time work as a photographer. He had returned from a project photographing gypsies in Romania just two days before the Soviet invasion, in August He witnessed and recorded the military forces of the Warsaw Pact as they invaded Prague and crushed the Czech reforms.
Koudelka's negatives were smuggled out of Prague into the hands of the Magnum agency, and published anonymously in The Sunday Times Magazine under the initials P. Prague Photographer for fear of reprisal to him and his family. His pictures of the events became dramatic international symbols.
With Magnum to recommend him to the British authorities, Koudelka applied for a three-month working visa and fled to England in , where he applied for political asylum and stayed for more than a decade. In he joined Magnum Photos. A nomad at heart, he continued to wander around Europe with his camera and little else.
Throughout the s and s, Koudelka sustained his work through numerous grants and awards, and continued to exhibit and publish major projects like Gypsies and Exiles Since , he has worked with a panoramic camera and issued a compilation of these photographs in his book Chaos in Koudelka has had more than a dozen books of his work published, including most recently in the retrospective volume Koudelka. He and his work received support and acknowledgment from his friend the French photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson.
He was also supported by the Czech art historian Anna Farova. In Koudelka became a French citizen, and was able to return to Czechoslovakia for the first time in He then produced Black Triangle, documenting his country's wasted landscape. Koudelka resides in France and Prague and is continuing his work documenting the European landscape.
He has two daughters and a son. Filip Dujardin. Filip Dujardin is fine art and architectural photographer based in Belgium. Some of his architectural creations are structurally impossible or implausible.
Some of the most intriguing buildings seem perfectly ordinary at first glance, revealing their fictional nature as the viewer registers missing or incongruous details. From www. The Belgian artist began as a professional architectural photographer before turning to design in , creating virtual buildings using Google SketchUp—a 3D modeling tool—and Photoshop.
He ignores the laws of physics, defying gravity and material, to create exquisite architectural compositions. Source: www. Rania Matar. Rania Matar was born and raised in Lebanon and moved to the U. As a Lebanese-born American woman and mother, her cross-cultural experience and personal narrative inform her photography. Her work is in the permanent collections of several museums, institutions and private collections worldwide.
She is currently associate professor of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. All about "SHE": As a Lebanese-born American woman and mother, my background and cross-cultural experiences inform my art. I have dedicated my work to exploring issues of personal and collective identity through photographs of female adolescence and womanhood - both in the United States where I live and the Middle East where I am from - in an effort to focus on notions of identity and individuality, within the context of the underlying universality of these experiences.
They are the ages of my daughters - they are leaving the cocoon of home, entering adulthood and facing a new reality they are often not prepared for, a humbling reality most often harder than they expected and less glamorous than what is portrayed on social media.
Whereas in A Girl and Her Room, I photographed young women in relationship to the curated and controlled environment of their bedrooms, I am photographing them here in the larger environment they find themselves in after they leave home, the more global backdrop that now constitutes their lives in transitions. I want to portray the raw beauty of their age, their individuality, their physicality, their mystery, and the organic relationship they create with their environment, being in the lush landscapes of rural Ohio, or the textured backdrops of Beirut.
In addition to this, he engaged himself in drawing and painting. Six years later, he went to the United States where Hugh Edwards, a curator motivated and encouraged Jan Saudek in his work. When he returned to Prague, it became crucial for him to work in an underground cellar. It was not until the s that steadily the West began to recognize him as a top photographer from Czechoslovakia. His first book was published in Saudek started doing photography as a freelancer since he was stopped by the Czech Communists to work for the print shop and was not allowed to work as an artist.
Also in , the negatives of his photographs were detained by the police for some time.
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