Josef Koudelka has been acknowledged by the London Times as "the most potent and powerful photographer alive today." Unsentimental, solitary, deeply felt, sometimes troubling, Koudelka's photographs confront us, penetrate us, demand that we reflect on life's pilgrimage. The book's opening essay, by Nobel Prizewinning author Czeslaw Milosz, provides a moving counterpoint to these images. EXiles also features an expanded biography and bibliography on Koudelka, as well as many new photographs. Born in Moravia, Josef Koudelka ...
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Josef Koudelka has been acknowledged by the London Times as "the most potent and powerful photographer alive today." Unsentimental, solitary, deeply felt, sometimes troubling, Koudelka's photographs confront us, penetrate us, demand that we reflect on life's pilgrimage. The book's opening essay, by Nobel Prizewinning author Czeslaw Milosz, provides a moving counterpoint to these images. EXiles also features an expanded biography and bibliography on Koudelka, as well as many new photographs. Born in Moravia, Josef Koudelka began his career as an aeronautical engineer. His book "Gypsies "was published by Aperture in 1975.
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Koudelka, Josef. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" (USA) 1st printing of the (Second) revised and enlarged edition. No markings, about Fine in unclipped Very Good dust jacket with tiny rubbed spot to foot of spine panel. Boards, 160pp. B&W full page photos. Koudelka was born in 1938 in Boskovice, Moravia. He began photographing his family and the surroundings with a 6 x 6 Bakelite camera He had returned from a project photographing gypsies in Romania just two days before the Soviet invasion, in August 1968. He witnessed and recorded the military forces of the Warsaw Pact as they invaded Prague and crushed the Czech reforms. Koudelka's negatives were smuggled out of Prague into the hands of the Magnum agency, and published anonymously in The Sunday Times Magazine under the initials P. P. (Prague Photographer) for fear of reprisal to him and his family. A heavy book. (3.5 JM LVR 206/b2.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. This is a fine hardcover copy in a near fine dust jacket with almost no wear. The jacket is complete and is not price-clipped, sunned or faded. Completely clean. This is a first printing (full number line) of the revised and expanded edition of 1997. Essay by Czeslaw Milosz. Illustrated in black & white with Josef Koudelka's photographs. Biographical sketch. Bibliography. 11" high X 12" wide, 156 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Koudelka, Josef. Fine in near fine jacket. A short essay by Milosz, followed by 61 full-page b/w photographs by Koudelka. Oblong 4to, dark gray cloth, d.w. New York: Aperture, 1988. First edition. An uncommon book--fine in a fine dust wrapper.
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Very good in good dust jacket. dust jacket has small tears to edges, light dust jacket, wear, inside back cover has 1.5 inch tear along spine (printer error), umarked, good binding. [144]p. : chiefly ill.; 27x29 cm. Includes Illustrations. Bibliography: p[143].
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Very good in Very good jacket. Cloth. First printing. Jacket is lightly rubbed and worn along edges. Cover corners are lightly bumped. Binding is tight. Pages are yellowed around edges, but text and images are bright and unmarked.