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My Father
My Father
My Father

My Father

Maker (Czech, b. 1935)
Date1978
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 9 3/4 in x 14 3/4 in; paper: 11 3/8 in x 15 1/2 in
Credit LineGift of the Baruch Foundation
Object number2009:231
About the ArtistJan Saudek was born in Prague on May 13, 1935. He worked in various departments of the State Printing Works from 1950 through 1970, and started making his own photographs in 1951. He began to hand paint his images in 1977. Saudek's pictures display a fondness for sequences that can be traced back to his childhood appreciation of comic books. More obviously, his work is often inspired by the nineteenth century tradition of photographs of large women posed in lingerie reproduced as postcards (quite possibly also the source of inspiration for Saudek's collection 30 Postcards). His formal training occurred from 1950 to 1952, when Saudek attended Graphic Arts school and took a photography class. Saudek first exhibited in Prague in 1963 at the Hall of the Theatre on the Balustrade; though he continues to show work in his home country occasionally, Saudek's pictures are most widely exhibited in the United States. His work is held by such institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Musée Nicephore Nièpce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; and Photo Art, Basel, Switzerland. Saudek continues to live and work in the Czech Republic.
Image 35 (man holding newborn baby)
Saudek, Jan
1966, printed 1979
Patrick 5
Saudek, Jan
1984
Untitled (bad news)
Saudek, Jan
1983
Temptation of St. Anthony
Saudek, Jan
1983; printed 1984
Green Grocer
Saudek, Jan
1985
Childhood #1903
Saudek, Jan
1987; printed 1989
Untitled
Saudek, Jan
1977
The Childhood of Jacob
Volkmann, Toomas
1990
Vagabond
Saudek, Jan
1980; printed 1981
Womanhood III
Saudek, Jan
1981, printed 1984