Seealso:Group f/64; Funke, Jaromı ́r; Panoramic
Photography; Paul Caponigro; Weston, Edward;
White, ClarenceBiography
Born in Kolı ́n, Bohemia, 17 March 1896. Studied at the
School of Graphic Arts. Worked for artists’ cooperative
Druzˇ stevnı ́Pra ́ce ́from 1927–1936 and then went free-
lance. Received Prize of the City of Prague, 1954; nomi-
nated to the Art Photography Commission of the
Czechoslovak Union of Artists, 1956; Artist of Merit
by the Czech government, 1961; Order of Labour,- Died Prague, Czechoslovakia, 15 September 1976.
Individual Exhibitions
1932 Josef Sudek; Druzˇ stevnı ́Pra ́ce ́exhibition room; Prague,
Czechoslovakia and traveling
1958 Josef Sudek; ArlesˇRoom; Prague, Czechoslovakia
1959 House of Arts; Brno, Czechoslovakia
1961 Josef Sudek; Bullaty-Lomeo Studio; New York, New
York
Josef Sudek; Slesian/Silesian/Slzske ́Museum; Opava,
Czechoslovakia
1963 Josef Sudek; Czechoslovakian Writers’ Exhibition
Room; Prague, Czechoslovakia
1966 Josef Sudek; Severocˇeske ́Museum; Liberec, Czecho-
slovakia
1972 Josef Sudek; Neikrug Gallery; New York, New York
1974 Josef Sudek: A Retrospective Exhibition; International
Museum of Photography and Film, George Eastman
House; Rochester, New York
Josef Sudek; Light Gallery; New York, New York
Josef Sudek; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Washington, D.C.
1976 Museum of Decorative Arts; Prague, Czechoslovakia
1976 Josef Sudek: A Retrospective Exhibition of Photographic
Oeuvre; Moravian Gallery; Brno, Czechoslovakia
Impressions Gallery; York, England
Photographer’s Gallery; London, England
1977 Recontres Internationales de la Photographie; Arles, France
1977 Josef Sudek Retrospective; International Center of
Photography; New York, New York
1978 National Gallery; Prague, Czechoslovakia
1978 Moderna Museet; Stockholm, Sweden
1978 Finnish Photographic Museum; Helsinki, Finland
1982 Preus Fotofmuseum; Horten, Norway
1985 Pushkin Museum; Moscow, USSR
1988 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Fran-
cisco, California
1988 Muse ́e national d’Art moderne, Centre Georges Pom-
pidou; Paris, France
1988 Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland, Ohio
1988 The Magic Garden of Josef Sudek; Art Institute of
Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
1990 Josef Sudek, Poet of Prague, Photographs 1921–1976;
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Philadelphia, Pynnsylva-
nia and traveling
1992 The High Museum of Art; Atlanta, Georgia
1993 Muse ́e des Beaux-Arts; Nantes, France
Josef Sudek, Photographs; Museum of Fine Arts;
Houston, Texas
1994 Espace Van Gogh; Arles, FranceJosef Sudek: The Pigment Prints 1947–1954; Recon-
tres Internationales de la Photographie; Arles, France
and traveling
1995 August Sander Archive; Cologne, Germany
Moravian Gallery; Brno, Czechoslovakia
Spa ́la Galerie; Prague, Czechoslovakia
1996 International Center of Photography; New York, New
York
1998 Josef Sudek: The North Country (1957–1962); The
Moravian Gallery; Brno, CzechoslovakiaSelected Group Exhibitions
1926 Czech Photographic Society First Members’ Exhibition;
Prague
1938 Members’ exhibition of the photo-section SVU Ma ́nes
(International Exhibition of Photography); Palace
Ma ́nes; Prague, Czechoslovakia
1939 One Hundred Years of Photography; Museum of Dec-
orative Art; Prague, Czechoslovakia
1958 National Exhibition of Photography; Prague, Czecho-
slovakia
1960 Sudek in the Arts (homage by painters and graphic
arts); Mlada ́Fronta; Prague, Czechoslovakia
1967 Czech Photographers Between Two World Wars; Prague,
Czechoslovakia
1973 Personalities of Czechoslovak Photography; Prague,
Czechoslovakia
1975 Lyricism in Contemporary Czechoslovak Photography;
City Museum; Freiburg in Breisgau, GDR
1983 Sudek and Czechoslovak Photograpy; Centre Georges
Pompidou; Paris, France
1983 Facet of the Collection: Czechoslovak Photography;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
California
1985 The Beginning and Contemporary Czechoslovak Photo-
graphy; Photography Forum; Frankfurt, Germany
1988 Czechoslovakian Art in the 20s and 30s; Mathilden-
ho ̈he; Darmstadt, Germany
1989 What is Photography—150 Years of Photography;
Ma ́nes, Prague, Czechoslovakia
1989 Czechoslovak Photography 1945–1989; Prague, Cze-
choslovakia
1989 Czech Modernism; Moravian Gallery; Brno, Czecho-
slovakia
1989 Czech Modernism 1900–1945; Museum of Fine Arts;
Houston, Texas and traveling
1989 On the Art of Fixing a Shadow; National Gallery of
Art; Washington and Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois, and traveled in Los Angeles County Museum of
Art, Los Angeles, California
1990 Czech Avantgarde, Archibishop’s Palace; Arles, France
1991 Modernism Photography in Prague 1900–1925; New
Gallery; Linz, Austria and traveling
1993 Czech and Slovak Photography Between the Wars to
the Present; Fitchburg Art Museum; Fitchburg, Massa-
chusettsSelected Works
Series:
‘‘Kolı ́nsky Island and Stromavak Park,’’ 1924–26
‘‘Invalidovna,’’ 1922–27
‘‘St. Vitus’ Cathedral,’’ 1924–28SUDEK, JOSEF