MISSION PHOTOGRAPHIQUE TRANSMANCHE
Cahier 6
Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka: MISSION PHOTOGRAPHIQUE TRANSMANCHE. Photographs by Josef Koudelka. Centre de Développement Culturel de Calais/Centre Régional de la Photographie Nord Pas-de-Calais: Cahier 6. Éditions de la Différence, 1989. Text in French with English translations appended. An Accordian fold book with stiff wrappers in a stiff paper slipcase. 15 panoramic duotone plates. Introductions. A very good to near fine copy with lightly soiled wrappers and fore edge of the textblock starting to curl. The slipcase is in very good condition with mild edgewear. An elaborate and extravagent production consisting of 15 panoramic duotone plates. Introductions by Bernard Latarjet and Michel Guillot. A series of 15 gorgeously printed panoramas of Calais that effectively erase the old distinction between "documentary and fiction, objectivity and invention...[Koudelka] makes use of photography to reappropriate the world, just as he uses the world to make photographs"--from Bernard Latarjet's essay.
Stark, impassioned, and singularly intense, the work of the itinerant and fiercely independent Czech photographer, Josef Koudelka, has received deserved acclaim over the past three decades for having made a uniquely significant contribution to the language of photography. Whether photographing Prague's avant-garde theater scene in the 1960s, the secretive world of the Eastern European gypsies, Czech resistance to the Soviet advance on Prague, or the environmental degradation of our postindustrial world, Koudelka has consistently produced transformative images that stand outside of time and place. In the words of the legendary French photography-world figure and Koudelka's longtime champion and publisher, Robert Delpire, 'Koudelka brings an intense eye and full heart to each place, object, and person.
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