Drawing on classical paintings, historical portraiture, and 19th-century pornographic studio photographs, the erotic images of Jan Saudek reveal a world of fantasy where artistic play and expression are given free range. Using elaborate backdrops and magical costumes, Saudek is both voyeur and participant, photographer and model, shifting back and forth in a style that lends the term autoportraiture new meaning. These 146 color photographs, featuring new and previously unpublished images with Saudek's commentaries, are as ...
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Drawing on classical paintings, historical portraiture, and 19th-century pornographic studio photographs, the erotic images of Jan Saudek reveal a world of fantasy where artistic play and expression are given free range. Using elaborate backdrops and magical costumes, Saudek is both voyeur and participant, photographer and model, shifting back and forth in a style that lends the term autoportraiture new meaning. These 146 color photographs, featuring new and previously unpublished images with Saudek's commentaries, are as much about the artist as about the characters he creates. As Saudek states, I dont have the capacity to portray other peoples lives. I am portraying my own. Spending time with Saudeks images is an unsettling experience, a roller-coaster ride of attraction and repulsion, confirmation and confrontation. The Spectator
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Add this copy of Jan Saudek to cart. $91.00, very good condition, Sold by MW Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galway, G, IRELAND, published 1998 by Köln: Taschen.
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Physical description: 199 pages: chiefly illustrations (some color); 31 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 199). Text in English, German and French. Subjects: Saudek, Jan 1935-; Photography, Erotic; Photography of women; Photography, Artistic; Czech photography; Photography of the nude; Erotic literature; Photographers; Photography; Sexuality. Near fine copy in colour-printed boards, in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.
Add this copy of Jan Saudek to cart. $151.00, like new condition, Sold by Moraine Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ruovesi, FINLAND, published 1998 by Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book on photography by Jan Saudek presenting a complete retrospective of his oeuvre from its beginnings in the 1950s to his latest and most controversial work in the late 1990s. Excellent condition. Text in English, German and French. 199 pp.
Add this copy of Jan Saudek-Theater Des Lebens Daniela Mrazkova to cart. $228.19, very good condition, Sold by LLU- BOOKSERVICE ANTIQUARIAN rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wahlstedt, S-H, GERMANY, published by Panorama Verlag, 1991.
Add this copy of Jan Saudek to cart. $636.49, very good condition, Sold by LLU- BOOKSERVICE ANTIQUARIAN rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wahlstedt, S-H, GERMANY, published 1998 by Taschen.
Add this copy of Jan Saudek to cart. $54.25, good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Taschen.
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Good+ (Light edgewear to DJ and boards; interior is clean; binding is solid. ) Black and photo-illustrated DJ with white lettering; black boards with white lettering; 199 pages; chiefly illustrations. A complete retrospective of Czech photographer, Jan Saudek, this work features over 150 of his nudes and erotic photographic pieces. --WorldCat.
Add this copy of Jan Saudek: Theatre of Life to cart. $92.00, very good condition, Sold by Hennessey + Ingalls rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES, published by Panorama.
Add this copy of Jan Saudek to cart. $170.59, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Diego, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by TASCHEN.
Add this copy of Jan Saudek Saudek, Jan; Fricke, Christiane and Konze, to cart. $54.25, very good condition, Sold by Pete's Reads rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Washington, DC, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by TASCHEN.
