PHOTO POCHE (ASSOCIATION COPY)

Josef Koudelka
PHOTO POCHE (ASSOCIATION COPY)

Photographs: Josef Koudelka

Text: Bernard Cuau

Publisher: Centre National de la Photographie

Pictures: 66

Year: 1984

Price: 350 €

Comments: Illustrated softcover, 18,9 x 12,4 cm. Mention of second edt, black-and-white photographs reproduced in duotone. Biographical and bibliographical notes. Inscribed for Eikoh Hosoe by Josef Koudelka in 1989 "To Eikoh Hosoe from his friend Josef". Copy taken directly from the library of Hosoe, who passed away very recently. RARE

When he arrived in Paris, Josef Koudelka had already produced two major photographic collections. One showed the crushing of the Prague Spring by Soviet tanks; the other could have been described as ethnological if his images of Gypsies had not been so emotionally charged.
Unknown in 1970, he was already one of the most powerful photographers of his time. This book proves that, in the lands of exile he travelled through with his characteristic rage, Koudelka's unique talent was definitively established and flourished.
Bernard Cuau