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Jan Saudek is the most famous living Czech photographer, and simultaneously the most provocative. For over four decades Saudek has created a parallel photographic universe, a two-dimensional home full of longing, peopled with the most extraordinary characters and colored by desire. The timeless strength of his hand-tinted photographs lies in their poetic compositions and their forceful pictorial language, with its overtones of medieval genre pictures and Baroque mythology. Rejecting the traditional beauty in his famous nude photographs, Saudek shows the distinctively different: old women, fat women, children; real people in tableaux vivants that remind us of everything from surreal early movies to fin-de-siecle carnival nights. They exist outside time, a uniquely colored and almost mythical theater of dreams. Covering his debut in the 1950s through his lesser-known work to recent images, this dazzling collection offers us the true velvet revolution, fertile and unsettling images from the dreams we might still have.

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"Daniela Mrazkova, critic and editor of the Czech magazines ""Revue fotografie"" and ""Fotografie-Magazin,"" is the author of 16 books on photography published in her own country (Czech Republic) and abroad, and curator of around 50 photography exhibitions. She has been a member of international juries, and has authored film and television documentaries on photography and photographers. She has followed Jan Saudeks work from the start, and is the author of Saudeks first Czech monograph, ""The Theatre of Life. """

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