Instant Presence

Instant Presence. Representing Art in Photography

Hana Buddeus, Vojtěch Lahoda, Katarína Mašterová (eds.)

Together with the digitisation of collections and the redefining of analogue archives, there has emerged a broad spectrum of new topics dealing with the fascinating subject matter of photography of art works. This results in unprecedented attention being paid to the various kinds of photographs housed in the photo libraries of art history institutions, the estates of art historians, artists and photographers, archives, museums or galleries, and reproduced in periodicals and publications on art history.
Published in honor of Josef Sudek (1896–1976), a Czech photographer otherwise famous for his photographs of the misty window of his studio, the present book brings together experts on the photography of art works from leading European and American institutions as well as curators and art historians who specialise in Sudek and his work. The breadth of scope of this photographer, for whom making reproductions of fine art was a source of livelihood, helps to open a number of important questions which explore various problems related to the photographic representation of art.

Texts: Hana Buddeus, Costanza Caraffa, Antonín Dufek, Sarah Hamill, Amy Hughes, Geraldine A. Johnson, Mariana Kubištová, Vojtěch Lahoda, Megan R. Luke, Katarína Mašterová, Jan Mlčoch, Hélène Pinet, Rolf Sachsse

First edition, in English, 319 pp., colour illustrations, name index, Praha 2017
ISBN 978-80-86890-09-8