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Josef Koudelka: Ruins

Hardback

Main Details

Title Josef Koudelka: Ruins
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Josef Koudelka
Text by Alain Schnapp
Text by Heloise Conesa
Text by Bernard Latarjet
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:368
Dimensions(mm): Height 240,Width 315
Category/GenreIndividual photographers
ISBN/Barcode 9780500545348
ClassificationsDewey:779.41822
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrated throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 28 May 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Between 1991 and 2015, Josef Koudelka completed an epic journey across twenty countries bordering the Mediterranean, stopping at over 200 Greek and Roman archaeological sites, relentlessly researching the beauty of the ancient world. Before the Magnum photographer, nobody had attempted to make such a comprehensive photographic record of these artefacts with so much persistence and so little assistance. In this book, produced in close collaboration with the photographer, Koudelka's aim was to use art to re-appropriate a world that is escaping us and that we could lose - a world where the mind alternates between reason and faith, law and liberty.

Author Biography

Josef Koudelka was born in Moravia in 1938. In 1968, he photographed the Soviet invasion of Prague, for which he was awarded the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal. He has published over a dozen books, including Exiles, Chaos and Invasion 68: Prague.