His photographic activity stopped being a hobby in 1963 after he had seen the catalog of the exhibition of the American photographer Edward Steichen (“The Family of Man”). In the 1960s, he underwent military service. Being forced by the government, he started working in a print shop. Saudek often makes his shots in sepia or b&w colors, but even hand-colored photos reminding of vintage works seem disturbing, partly due to their soviet surroundings with scuffed walls and carpets everywhere.Īt the beginning of the 1950s, Saudek was an apprentice of a photographer. Despite being prolific, the photographs made by a holocaust witness living in his youth under a Soviet regime have a dark shadow on them. Saudek began his career as a photographer in 1950 when he bought his first camera Kodak Baby Brownie. The mother died in a camp, but the father was left alive by a miracle as his sons. Jan Saudek and his twin brother Kaja Saudek, being born in the family of a Czech mother and Jewish father, survived the holocaust. Jan Saudek, early 2000s () The Camp and the Camera Saudek treats the color as a way to accentuate details, like model make-up or her veins.įig. The Czech photographer Jan Saudek (born 1935) creates his sensual hand-colored daguerreotypes today, using the photograph as a sketch. In October, we’ve published an article devoted to pornographic daguerreotypes of the 19th century.
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