This collection of pictures by an acknowledged master of photography, now updated to include 11 new images, forms a document of the spiritual and physical state of exile. The sense of private mystery that fills these photographs - mostly taken during Koudelka's many years of wandering through Europe and the United States since leaving his native Czechoslovakia - speaks of passion and reserve, of his "rage to see".
The images here interrogate and penetrate, and reflect the nature of alienation. The accompanying essay by Robert Delpire invokes the soul of man in search of a spiritual homeland. Josef Koudelka's photographs of the Warsaw Pact armies' intervention in Prague won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1969. In 1970 he left Czechoslovakia for asylum in England and became a member of Magnum Photos.
Exiles
Category: Photographer Monographs & Art Books
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Author: Josef Koudelka
Publisher: Aperture
Publication Date:
1997
Print Length: 156 pages
Language: English
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Selected Books by This Photographer
Josef Koudelka: Next: A Visual Biography by Melissa Harris
2023 - Aperture
Josef Koudelka, Melissa Harris
Josef Koudelka: Ikonar
2023 - Spector Books
Josef Koudelka, Lars Willumeit, Stuart Alexander, Tatyana Franck
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