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Koudelka

Hardback

Main Details

Title Koudelka
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Robert Delpire
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:276
Dimensions(mm): Height 285,Width 295
Category/GenreIndividual photographers
ISBN/Barcode 9780500543269
ClassificationsDewey:770.92
Audience
General
Illustrations 158 Halftones, duotone

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 6 November 2006
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Stark, impassioned and singularly intense, Josef Koudelka's work has received deserved acclaim over the past three decades as a uniquely significant contribution to the language of photography. Koudelka is the first book to present over 150 of his most eloquent images in a single volume, from his earliest images - published here for the first time - to his most recent panoramic landscape studies. Whether photographing avant-garde theatre, gypsies throughout Eastern Europe, resistance to Soviet guns and tanks advancing on Prague, or the environmental degradation of a post-industrial world, Koudelka has consistently produced images that provoke a connection to the larger questions of human existence. As John Szarkowski comments in the opening pages of Koudelka's first monograph, Gypsies, his pictures 'seem to concern themselves with prototypical rituals, and a theatre of ancient and unchangeable fables... Perhaps they describe not the small and cherished differences that distinguish each of us from all others, but the prevailing circumstance that encloses us.' Robert Delpire, Koudelka's longtime publisher, collaborated with the artist in conceiving and producing this title. 'His images and their precise compositions stand outside time and place,' writes Delpire. 'Koudelka brings an intense eye and full heart to each place, object and person. This work proves once again that he is a photographer with a unique personality and power.' The other essayists in Koudelka each explore a different aspect of the artist's work, illustrating his constant evolution and intensity.

Author Biography

Robert Delpire was an art publisher, editor, curator, film producer and graphic designer who lived and worked in Paris.

Reviews

'Startlingly lovely, often impassioned pictures ... Robert Delpire's accompanying text is both readable and enlightening' - Daily Telegraph 'Covers nearly half a century of penetrating observation in stark, poetic monochrome' - The World of Interiors 'A must-have' - Metro 'A fine monograph' - The Art Book