Vlog of Mattie: Homage to Josef Sudek

I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.

The words belong to Josef Sudek, the photographer who lived in Prague; an eggshell, a pin, a leaf, something that’s looking as the shape of an old book: Sudek took banal objects and pulled out grains of sky. Minimalism: one more detail would have spoiled the image, one less detail would have made the image poor.

And here comes Mattie, who loves the minimalism of the images of Sudek and Ozu, and dreams of re-creating it on his vlog. Watch his video; it is a search for the banal objects of Josef Sudek: looking for them, finding them, asking them about their beauty, playing with their answer.

Unfortunately the width of my blog cannot accommodate the size of the video, so I give you some screenshots instead:








Interesting is that Mattie had the visual acuity to grasp those small details giving a kind of Austro-Hungarian, Central European flavor, characteristic for the image world of Josef Sudek. I don't know, it's probably the way the objects are arranged.

(Vlog of Mattie)