Josef sudek

Josef sudek is a very different photographer, what I mean by this is that he is very different and mysterious in his work as he has this strange persona in his own work, as his images seem so privatised and enclose in his own life and what goes on through his mind, but he never reveals this in his images to a huge extent to get an understanding. Josef was born in Kolin in Prague 1896. He was very much understood as a failing and failed student and that he would have a low life job, but he got a job as a bookbinder and then became involved in photography whilst at the job.

Josef served in the Italian war front in WWI, so surviving was very much at the time luck if you were in the front line for the Italian’s as they were despised by both sides changing their choices of support throughout the war. Om 1916 he lost his arm due to a grenade and then spent the next following 3yrs in hospital. Josef after his own recovery refused any jobs he got offered and joined an amateur photographers club in Prague then in 1922 he went to the school of graphic arts.

Josef’s work and his whole concept of his work is using the available light that he has access to. Josef liked to use all lighting but never like to change nor play with it so if a plant or tree blocked the lighting it was to be taken like that and not moved.

A way his work influences me is by possibly have more thought in my work with the lighting that I use in the images and use all the access to lighting that I have and maybe see what I can change and do with lighting in my own practice than always have to really on the natural lighting as Josef did possibly.

Something I will pick up and use form his images are the amazing composition in his images as there simple but yet very much a key part of his images as these stand out as you have no where else to really look other than straight ahead.