Open daily from 10 am to 8 pm.Jan Saudek, Czech Photographer, "The Bath" You can form your own attitude towards Jan Saudek after visiting his big retrospective exhibition at newly open Jan Saudek Gallery (this exhbition used to be on the Old Town Square, in the house called U Bileho jednorozce, in English The White Unicorn House). It shows more than 150 pictures either elephant size or published for the first time. This exhibition, which includes 50 years of Saudek’s photo work, is unique by its range and the choice of works exhibited. This terrible experience as a child had a strong influence on him. He himself was held in a children’s concentration camp near Polish borders.
Many of his family died in concentration camp during World War II. And it is original, provocative adoration of manhood – to which anything human is not strange – that makes Saudek a unique character in contemporary photography. His work is distinctive and original, not part of any genre or movement. It is the relationship between youth and old, beauty and ugliness, sincerity and falsehood, irony and cynicism that you can trace in his work.
Saudek is fascinated by the metamorphosis of human body over time, photographing children as well as women’s bodies – boyishly thin or voluptuously fat. People used as models for his nude photography are ordinary people, no models from magazines. Sometimes funny, sometimes pathetic, sometimes a little rude, but that’s perhaps rather like the real thing. For Saudek and his fans, these are pictures about life, because nudity is part of everybody’s life. Why? Almost all of Saudek’s pictures involve nudity. His work as well as his personality is celebrated, adored, worshiped by some people and at the same time vilified, despised and cursed by others.
I am talking here about the exhibition of Jan Saudek, famous Czech art photographer. Exhibition of Currently Most Renowned Czech Photographer Jan Saudek
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