Josef Koudelka: Nationality Doubtful by Stuart Alexander, Amanda Maddox, Gilles Tiberghien and Matthew S. Witkovsky
folio. pp. 224. profusely illustrated. paperback. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago in association with Fundación MAPFRE.
New in partially opened publisher's shrink wrap.
ISBN-10: 0300203926 / ISBN-13: 9780300203929
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A retrospective catalogue featuring vintage prints as well as recent, unpublished work by an internationally acclaimed photographer
This retrospective catalogue features vintage prints as well as recent, unpublished work by internationally acclaimed photographer Josef Koudelka (b. 1938). A leading member of the photo agency Magnum, co-founded by his close friend Henri Cartier-Bresson, Koudelka has been a legend since the publication of his unforgettable eyewitness photographs taken during the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet-led troops in 1968. In addition to Invasion and Exiles, Koudelka’s most ambitious project, Gypsies, is featured with the complete set of twenty-two prints first exhibited in 1967. Koudelka’s impressive imagery is accompanied here by five essays that provide a thorough understanding of and appreciation for this outstanding artist, willfully independent and reclusive despite his renown.