Still Life with Glass Objects, Parcel, and Letter

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Still Life with Glass Objects, Parcel, and Letter

Artist Josef Sudek (Czech, 1896-1976)

Date1960 (or 1968)

DimensionsOverall: 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)

MediumVintage gelatin-silver print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1986.77

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Label TextThe 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.Exhibition HistoryTMA, Jan 22 - June 8, 1999 TMA Persona non Persona: Dec. 5 2005 - Feb. 26, 2006. Toledo Museum of Art, Refraction/Reflection, April 20-September 2, 2012.