Josef Sudek (1896-1976)

THE CHARLES BRIDGE, DOUBLE EXPOSURE

1942
Vintage gelatin silver print on semi-matte paper,17x22,8 cm (18x23,8 cm). Signed in pencil lower right on the recto. Artist`s name, title and date in pencil on the verso. The photograph represents a rare example of a double exposure, which appears only very exceptionally in Sudek`s work. Publ.: Howard Greenberg, Annette & Rudolf Kicken, Czech Vision. Avant-Garde Photography in Czechoslovakia, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2007, p. 197.