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Josef Koudelka: Ruins
Hardback
Main Details
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Josef Koudelka: Ruins
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Josef Koudelka
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Text by Alain Schnapp
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Text by Heloise Conesa
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Text by Bernard Latarjet
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:368 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 240,Width 315 |
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| Category/Genre | Individual photographers |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780500545348
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| Classifications | Dewey:779.41822 |
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| Illustrations |
Illustrated throughout
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Thames & Hudson Ltd
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| Imprint |
Thames & Hudson Ltd
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| Publication Date |
28 May 2020 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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.
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