Angel With a Missing Wing: Loss, Restitution, and the Embodied Self in the Photography of Josef Sudek

Abstract

It is by lending his body to the world that the artist changes the world into paintings.-Merleau-Ponty There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse/ and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.-Isaiah XI.1 Angel With a Missing WingThe Czech photographer Josef Sudek (1896Sudek ( -1976) ) was a bit of a recluse.He nevertheless had a large circle of friends, many of them fellow music lovers, and his Tuesday evening salons, at which he entertained those who crowded into his tiny studio with recordings of classical music from his large collection, were legendary.Sudek lost his right arm in the First World War, fighting for Austria-Hungary at the Italian front.In 1926, ten years after his injury, some of his musician friends persuaded him to accompany them on a tour of Italy-where, one night, he disappeared.One day I just couldn't resist it.When the musicians of the Czech Philharmonic told me: Josef, come with us, we are going to Italy to play music, I told myself, fool that you are, you were there, and you did not enjoy that beautiful country when you served as a soldier for the Recipient of the American

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