Koudelka - Tapa dura

'A fine monograph' - The Art Book 'A must-have' - Metro 'Covers nearly half a century of penetrating observation in stark, poetic monochrome' - The World of Interiors 'Startlingly lovely, often impassioned pictures ... Robert Delpire's accompanying text is both readable and enlightening' - Daily Telegraph

Josef Koudelka has consistently produced images that provoke a connection to the larger questions of human existence. This volume is the first to present his most eloquent images in a single volume. Spans Koudelka’s entire career, from his earliest work with the Semafor Theatre in 1960s Prague to his most recent landscape studies in Camargue, France.

Table of Contents

Introduction – Regarding Josef / Robert Delpire
1. In the Beginning – From the Semafor Theatre to Divaldo Magazine / Anna Fárová
2. Experiments – Choosing the Essential / Pierre Soulages
3. Theatre – The Experience of Theatre / Otomar Krejca 4. Gypsies – The Other Within / Michel Frizot
5. Invasion – Prague 1968 / Petr Král
6. Exiles – The Dusk of the World / Dominique Eddé
7. Chaos – A Panoramic View / Gilles A. Tiberghien