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Praha Panoramaticka

by Josef Sudek

Photographs: Josef Sudek

Text: Jaroslav Seifert

Publisher: Statni Nakladatelstvi

295 pages

Pictures: 284

Year: 1959

Comments: damaged dust jacket, 35 x 22 cm, hardcover

This Photobook is the first edition and the first printing of the critically acclaimed photobook “Praha Panoramaticka (Prague In Panoramic Photographs )”. It was published in 1959 by Statni Nakladatelstvi in Prague and contains 284 black and white panoramic pictures of the city. Sudek masterfully captures the city that he loved and shows why he earned the nickname, “The Poet of Prague”.

“Sudek is a photographer whose body of work suggests that photography was as necessary to him as breathing, Josef Sudek claimed the city of Prague and his surroundings as comprehensively as Eugène Atget claimed Paris His masterpiece is one of the most singular photobooks ever made, Praha panoramaticka (Prague Panorama). To create this wealth of memorable images, Sudek used an antique 1894 Kodak Panorama camera with a spring-drive lens that produced a negative of approximately 4 by 12 inches. Of all his books, this one sums up his love of Prague. The panoramic camera is a strong unifying element in the imagery, but so is Sudek's democratic eye, which disregards nothing. His feeling for light, weather, and space in combination has never been surpassed. Praha pnoramatické is a veritable encyclopedia of how to plot, construct and unify a panoramic photograph. And if this were not enough, Sudek even pulls off a near impossible trick at the end of the book: good vertical panoramas". - Martin Parr & Gerry Badger in "The Photobook: A History "

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Praha Panoramaticka

by Josef Sudek

Photographs: Josef Sudek

Text: Jaroslav Seifert

Publisher: Statni Nakladatelstvi

295 pages

Pictures: 284

Year: 1959

Comments: damaged dust jacket, 35 x 22 cm, hardcover

This Photobook is the first edition and the first printing of the critically acclaimed photobook “Praha Panoramaticka (Prague In Panoramic Photographs )”. It was published in 1959 by Statni Nakladatelstvi in Prague and contains 284 black and white panoramic pictures of the city. Sudek masterfully captures the city that he loved and shows why he earned the nickname, “The Poet of Prague”.

“Sudek is a photographer whose body of work suggests that photography was as necessary to him as breathing, Josef Sudek claimed the city of Prague and his surroundings as comprehensively as Eugène Atget claimed Paris His masterpiece is one of the most singular photobooks ever made, Praha panoramaticka (Prague Panorama). To create this wealth of memorable images, Sudek used an antique 1894 Kodak Panorama camera with a spring-drive lens that produced a negative of approximately 4 by 12 inches. Of all his books, this one sums up his love of Prague. The panoramic camera is a strong unifying element in the imagery, but so is Sudek's democratic eye, which disregards nothing. His feeling for light, weather, and space in combination has never been surpassed. Praha pnoramatické is a veritable encyclopedia of how to plot, construct and unify a panoramic photograph. And if this were not enough, Sudek even pulls off a near impossible trick at the end of the book: good vertical panoramas". - Martin Parr & Gerry Badger in "The Photobook: A History "

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