Chaos. Ediz. illustrata - Tapa dura

"Only the greatest of photographers, such as Koudelka, can reconcile such diametrically opposed elements as documentary and aesthetic truth into one seamless image so that it is at once highly significant and utterly compelling. Chaos destined to be a classic, succeeds in doing so time and again."-Art Newspaper "Book of complex, and very often beautiful, images... A wonderful monograph... Koudelka confirms his standing at the top of any hierarchy of twentieth-century image-makers with this book."-British Journal of Photography "Chaos confirms Josef Koudelka as one of the world's greatest living photographers. This is not just a landmark photographic book but a landmark book per se."-Scotland on Sunday

For the past 12 years, Koudelka has made photographs using a panoramic format camera, exploring its formal possibilities with rigour and originality, and "Chaos" is the fulfilment of Koudelka's panoramic vision. "Paradoxically, the images in "Chaos" viciously expose the anarchy which man imposes on nature and on himself" writes Robert Delpire in his foreword, "beyond all controversy, they denounce the absurdity of a world turned into a scene of dereliction. Josef Koudelka recreates a dream space, an elsewhere beyond time, beyond location, within which he organizes the shapeless and the chaotic". "Chaos" is dramatic, provocative and beautiful. Koudelka's next publishing landmark, it will have a powerful impact within the art and photography world.