Jeff Sudek Photography Analysis

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My photographer is Josef Sudek, his approach to his style is more of nature and black and white, I was looking at a lot of his pictures and they mainly all look the same. He mostly shoots outdoors but, if she shoots indoors he makes sure its in a window, or in a couple there were rays of sunlight coming into the picture kind of having the same feelings as the others. It looks like he likes to use a lot of different types of light for his photography.
Josef Sudek's technique seems to be very simple, he has a basic subject or a very broad subject or main idea of the picture, all of his pictures are different but seem very alike to one another. In a lot of his photos he just had a subject in the picture or nature or outdoors in the background
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He was mainly known for his pictures of prague and took most of them during the First
World War ( July 28 1914 - November 11 1918 ).
Josef Sudek was born in 1896 in Kolin, Czech Republic. He was drafted into Hungarian Army in 1915.
He got a infection in his arm and had to have it amputated. Josef was introduced to art by his father, who was a painter. One of his dad’s friends introduced him to photography. He studied photography in prague after his amputation. Josef studied at the State School of Graphic Arts from 1920 - 1924.
He was inspired by Clarence White. At the beginning of his career he shot photos of injured or disabled
Czech soldiers. Josef was a very lonely and private person, most of his time was spend at his small studio in prague. He also photographed things he saw around him, often through his studio window, his garden, the city of Prague by day and by night, and its churches, as well as, other various objects: drinking glasses, flowers, seashells, crumpled paper, mirrors, frames, flasks. Known as the "Poet of Prague",
Sudek photographed places such as: Prague's streets and squares, churches and castles, bridges and gardens. Many people say that Josef Sudek “ Devoted his life to beauty “ ( Photography ). I can personally

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