Zpověď fotografa

Eva Horská / Czechoslovakia / 1967 / The film already had its Czech Premiere / 11 min.

synopsis

This portrait of photographer Josef Sudek is largely composed of his own words rather than the images themselves. He speaks of the influences on his work (Steichen, Stieglitz and others), and of the fact that a photograph must be taken properly and truly convey something: “You can photograph anything, but it must say something.” It captures his approach to photography, his camera and lenses, the developing of photographs on the stove, the clutter in his studio, the famous view of the Malá Strana garden from his window, and his favourite gramophone and records. Overall, it is an unpretentious documentary that does not seek to rival Schorm’s famous Žít svůj život (To Live One's Own Life, 1963), but rather attempts to show the subject from a different angle. The work is a third-year project from the Department of Film and Television Journalism.

biography

Eva Horská (1942–?) graduated from the Department of Film and Television Journalism at FAMU in 1970. During her studies, she also made the films Klíč (The Key, 1964) and Atomový Bach (Atomic Bach, 1965/66). Nothing is known of her subsequent life.