Josef Sudek

Calvary - Original Gelatin Silver Photography, Hand Signed - c. 1940

Josef Sudek Prague : National Theatre, 1963 Original gelatin silver print Hand signed in pencil in the lower right corner (see picture) 17 x 23 cm (c...

Josef Sudek View of Prague Original gelatin silver print 14 x 9 cm (c. 5.5 x 3.5 in) Authenticated on the back by the workshop stamp (see picture) Excellent condition

Frantisek Drtikol Portrait of a Young Woman, 1935 Original gelatin silver print 23 x 14 cm (c. 9 x 5.5 in) applied on cardboard 37 x 24 cm ( c. 14.6 x 9.4 in) Dated in the lower rig...

Josef Sudek Beskydy : Czech Mountains, 1959 Original gelatin silver print 11.5 x 14 cm (c. 4.3 x 6.7 in) Dated and titled on the back Signed on the back by Petr Helbich (the assista...

Josef Sudek Prague Castle Original gelatin silver photography 10 x 8.5 cm (c. 3.9 x 3.1 in) Authenticated on the back by the workshop stamp (see picture) Excellent condition

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitsky, called) Hollywood : Mr and Mrs Woodman, 1970 Original gelatin silver print Handsigned on the back Authenticated with the artist stamp "Epreuve originale...

An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency Keystone View Company. New York City skyscrapers, July 7th, 1931. Features: Original Silver Gelatin Print Photog...

An original silver gelatin black and white photograph with framing. New York City by night, circa 1950. Features: Original Silver Gelatin Print Photography framed. Press Photography....

An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Associated Press Photo. The USS Roosevelt aircraft carriers on the Hudson River, New York, during Navy Day...

Amodaj created the Hoop and Ball series of photographs in June 2010 with dancer and author Shawnrey Notto. The photographs were based on an earlie...

Amodaj created the Hoop and Ball series of photographs in June 2010 with dancer and author Shawnrey Notto. The photographs were based on an earlier series of drawings Nenad made of N...

Amodaj created the Hoop and Ball series of photographs in June 2010 with dancer and author Shawnrey Notto. The photographs were based on an earlier series of drawings Nenad made of Notto wearing parts of the deconstructed wedding dress during his figure drawing study in Michael Markowitz’s 23rd Street studio in San Francisco. The hoop skirt serves as an augmentation device, a skeletal extension meant to alter the visual perception of the human form. To realize the full associative power of the hoop, Amodaj created a counter-shape to the hoop, a white sphere (the Ball) made from plaster strips, to match the cloth texture and placed it in a dynamic relationship with his model. Notto improvised the poses from Nenad’s drawings in constant slow motion. The whole project was done in two 3-hour sessions with no rehearsals and no replays. The minimalistic setting, uniform lighting, and central vantage point shift perception from a trivial reality to a metaphysical one. The intent was to induce the spectator to spontaneously alternate between the three aspects: the human form, the symbolic function of the skirt, and the geometry of the cone and sphere. The spontaneity of dynamic poses and the imperfections of a handheld camera balance this sparse imagery. The exhibition presents a selection of 15 photographs from a project collection of over a hundred. Most of the series are gelatin-silver prints from a 35 mm film, with a few exceptions for large-scale digital color prints. Amodaj was influenced by the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher's typologies of industrial buildings and František Drtikol’s nudes. In the spirit of Becher’s “typologies,” Amodaj’s Hoop and Ball series of photographs explores endless mutations of the hoop skirt architecture, a clothing item with a curios geometric form that can be classified as a “flexible cone.” It is a form that appears both in nature and in artifice: flowers, bells, horns, nuclear power plants...