Josef Sudek Fotografie

Prague: Statni Nakladatelstvi, 1956. First edition. 232 black-and-white photogravures, some folding. 4to. Publisher's linen cloth, stamped in black on spine and cover. Near fine. First edition. 232 black-and-white photogravures, some folding. 4to. An excellent survey of the work of the master of Prague, with all of his usual subjects: the city itself, and the way that light transforms it, also still lives, landscapes, portraits, and nudes, veering from the Romantic to the Modernist. Includes an introduction by Lubomira Linharta, and poems by Valdimir Holan and Jaroslav Seifert.

Inscribed on the title page by Sudek in Prague, 21/XI 67. William Alan Piltzer, bookplate to front pastedown