Josef Koudelka

Yale University Press: This retrospective catalogue features vintage prints as well as recent, unpublished work by internationally acclaimed photographer Josef Koudelka (b. 1938).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. Wilfully independent and reclusive despite his renown, Koudelka's impressive imagery is accompanied here by five essays that provide a thorough understanding and appreciation of this outstanding artist.


About the Author

Matthews S. Witkovsky is the Richard and Ellen Sandor Chair & Curator, department of photography, the Art Institute of Chicago. Amanda Maddox is associate curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Stuart Alexander is a vice president at Christies's in New York and an independent scholar and curator. Gilles A. Tiberghien is a professor of aesthetics at the University of Paris.