A comprehensive monograph with an essay by curator, author and executrix of the Sudek estate Anna Farova. This book is published in association with a major retrospective exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Sudek demonstrated a penetrating understanding of the effects of light in photography in terms of subject, photographer and viewer. His images convey a poignancy and a sense of the hidden life of Eastern Europe which has rarely been depicted in any medium. He was also Czechoslovakia's foremost experimentalist in the medium rivaling Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, and Rodchenko."--the publisher.