Arco
Arnaldo
Pomodoro
Negombo
Ischia
Italia |
Vaclav SEDY is
a photographer from Czechoslovakia. He has lived in Italy since
1983, where he has worked with architecture magazines such as
Domus, Abitare, Casabella and others. Educational background:
in Brno and at the Academy of Cinema and Television in Prague,
where he took a degree in photography with a thesis on Czechoslovakian
photography of the Sixties; the thesis received an award from
the Czech Literature Foundation. While he was still in Czechoslovakia,
he worked at the Regional Museum of Cesky Tesin in Lower Silesia,
concentrating on ethnographic studies and vernacular architecture.
In Italy his first assignments involved iconographic research
for magazines like Illustrazione Italiana and Reporter,
and the contribution of articles for the magazine Ottagono. He
has organized photography exhibitions illustrating the tradition
of Czech photography, writing critical essays for the catalogs.
In 1992 he published, for the Lindau publishing house of Turin,
the book "Benedetto Alfieri
ad Asti", followed by an exhibition of black and white
photos at the Pinacoteca of Asti. In '97 the book "Casa
di cristallo" was published, containing images of the park
of Philip Johnson in New
Canaan, commissioned by the Elemond publishing house. In '98
the book was reprinted in a French
edition, by the publisher Gallimard. The latest book featuring
his photographs, published by Skira, is on the sculptures of Arnaldo
Pomodoro at San Leo. |
