First edition of Labyrinths by Josef Sudek. First impression. Medium format hardback in near fine condition. Some very minor shelf wear to the outer edges of the dust jacket only. Please see photographs for reference.
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Like the previous volumesThe Window of My StudioandStill Lifes, this Josef Sudek monograph collects a series of photographs made within the confines of the Czech photographers workspace. Sudeks studio famously verged on installation art, as the poet Jaroslav Seifert recalled: Bretons surrealism would have come into its own there. A drawing by Jan Zrzavy lay rolled up by a bottle of nitric acid, which stood on a plate where there was a crust of bread and a piece of smoked meat with a bite taken out of it. And above this hung the wing of a Baroque angel with Sudeks beret hanging from it…. This disorder was so picturesque, so immensely rich, that it almost came close to being a strange but highly subtle work of art. Gathered here in all their surreal beauty, theLabyrinthsseries depicts multilayered assemblages of objects in endlessly permuted combinations.
