Still Life with Glass Objects, Parcel, and Letter
Artist: Josef Sudek (Czech, 1896-1976)
Date: 1960 (or 1968)
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 1/16 x 11 1/4 in. (38.2 x 28.6 cm);
Image: 11 3/8 x 9 in. (28.9 x 22.9 cm)
Medium: Vintage gelatin-silver print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1986.77
Label Text:The objects in a still life can express the interests or status of the person for whom the image was created. And sometimes a still life is a kind of self-portrait of the artist who created it. Josef Sudek, “the poet of Prague,” was his country’s most famous photographer. A National Artist of Czechoslovakia, his photography was mainly concerned with tonal value and gradation. In 1940 he began making contact prints that produced a magical tonality that he could not duplicate in an enlargement. His compositions often include an article of glass through which light refracts and lands obliquely, creating unexpected highlights and shadows.
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