Anna Fárová Josef Sudek. Munich: Gina Kehayoff Verlag, 1999. First English-language edition of the 1995 Czech original. Translation by Michael Knight. 3929078554 405 pages. Folio volume, measuring approximately 10.75" x 13.5", is bound in textured gold paper, with green lettering to spine and front cover. Inset pictorial label appears on front cover reproducing work by the photographer. This work includes an index of names and a bibliography.  Book in slipcase is new, still in shrinkwrap. "Dubbed the "poet of Prague," Josef Sudek was one of the most important and celebrated of Czech photographers. Sudek produced his best work during his middle-aged years, having grown up and out of the rules of Modernism and into a style of his own. Whereas his photographs from the 1930s are mainly a reflection of the external world, by the 1940s he was returning to himself, finding his own unique creative path. It was during this period that he made his most famous photograph, a view of the world seen through his studio window, the window ledge doubling as a stage for still life objects--a setup which he repeated to great effect. Not even the pressures of WWII and the difficult postwar years, including the demands of socialist realism in the arts, interrupted the continuity of his oeuvre."