Jan Saudek

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Their mother's family came to Prague from Bohemia, and their father from the city of Děčín in the northwest part of that area. From the late 1970s, he became recognized in the West as the leading Czech photographer, and also developed a following among photographers in his own country.

Covering his debut in the 1950s 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. Foto-Ausstellung von Jan Saudek in Prag eröffnet" [Photo exhibition by Jan Saudek opened in Prague] (in German). Near fine copy in colour-printed boards, in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved.After completing his military service, he was inspired in 1963 by the catalogue for American photographer Edward Steichen's The Family of Man exhibition, and began to work to become a serious art photographer. This volume presents the first critical look at Tress’s early career, contextualizing the highly imaginative, fantastic work he became known for while also examining his other interrelated series: Appalachia: People and Places; Open Space in the Inner City; Shadow; and Theater of the Mind.

His seminal series, The Dream Collector, depicts Tress’s interests in dreams, nightmares, fantasies, and the unconscious and established him as one of the foremost proponents of magical realism at a time when few others were doing staged photography. First Printing, complete with bibliography and checklist to the exhibition from whence comes this fine catalogue. Without formal training, he explored mines and ventured to India's Jharkhand state to document coal miners in Dhanbad, known as the "coal capital.

In 1959, he started using the more advanced Flexaret 6x6 camera, and also engaged in painting and drawing. Aya is passionate about exploring the natural world and protecting ecosystems and wild landsAll about Photo: Tell us about your first introduction to photography. Jan Saudek: Divadlo Zivota - Theatre of Life - Theater des Lebens - Theatre de la Vie - Teator di Vita. Harris, and Paul Martineau plumb Tress’s work and archives, studying ephemera, personal correspondence, unpublished notes, diaries, contact sheets, and more to uncover how he went from earning his living as a social documentarian in Appalachia to producing surreal work of “imaginative fiction.