The Wedding I and The Wedding II

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These are two gelatin silver prints, which I had framed at Mahoneys Framing by Master Framer Greg Mahoney, using museum non-reflective glass. Jan Saudek is considered a leading Czech photographer, best known for his depictions of nudes and youthful figures arranged in dreamlike spaces. His hand-colored, erotic photographs of young women amidst painted backdrops and plaster props lends his work the appearance of mid-19th century photography. Born on May 13, 1935 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Saudek survived captivity in a Nazi concentration camp as a child, and artistic outlets became a means to cope with haunting childhood memories. He went on to pursue his interest in photography after seeing Edward Steichen’s book The Family of Man, and, despite the restrictions imposed by the Communist regime he lived under, he became an internationally renowned artist. His work has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and is in the collections of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, among others. Saudek lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic. (This Extract is from http://www.artnet.com/artists/jan-saudek)