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Josef Koudelka

Diskutujeme o moralce dneska 1956


Divadlo 1962-1969
Kral Ubu: Rozbor inscenace Divadla Na Zabradli v Praze 1966
Rozbor insenace Divadla Na zabradli v Praze 1966
Josef Koudelka 1968
Gitans : la fin du voyage (Fr) - Gypsies (US) 1975
Josef Koudelka: I Grandi Fotografi 1982
Josef Koudelka 1984
Photographs by Josef Koudelka 1984
Exils 1988
Regards d’Acier 1988
Mission Photographique Transmanche 1989
Paysages photographies en France les années quatre-vingt 1989
Animaux 1990
Prague 1968 1990
Josef Koudelka: Fotografie Divadlo za branou 1965–1970 1993
Photographs by Josef Koudelka 1993
Černý Trojuhelník – Podkrušnohorí : Fotografie 1990–1994 1994
Periplanissis: Following Ulysses' Gaze 1995
Photopoche: Josef Koudleka 1997
Reconnaissance – Wales 1998
Chaos 1999
Lime Stone 2001
Josef Koudelka 2002
En Chantier 2002
Théâtre du Temps - Teatro del tempo 2003
L'épreuve totalitaire 2004
Camargue 2006
Koudelka 2006
Joseph Koudelka Photofile 2007
Invasion 68: Prague 2008
Koudelka Piedmont – Piemonte 2010
Lime 2012
Wall 2013
Industries 2017
Diskutujeme o moralce
dneska
1956
Nakladatelstvi Politické Literatury,
Czechoslovakia, 1965
Divadlo
1962-1969

Divaldo 1962-1969.
Union of Czechoslovak theatre artists.
25 numeros.
1962 (1-4-5-6-7-8-10),
1963 (cerven),
1964 (1-3-5-7-9),
1965 (1-3-4-5-8),
1966 (brezen - prozinec),
1967
(leden - unor),
1968 (cerven - unor),
1969 (unor).
In-8 oblong (16,5 x 24 cm). Editions riginales,
brochees.
Design par Libor Fara, mari d’Anna Farova.
Importante revue tcheque de theatre et
litterature parue entre 1949 et 1979. Serie
complete des numeros dont les couvertures
sont illustrees par une photographie de Josef
Koudelka.
Couverture souple illustree (usures). Deux
emboitages rouges d’editeur joints.
700 / 900 € > Ader 2014
Set of 20 Issues of Divadlo
1962

Titolo: Set of 20 Issues of Divadlo


Casa editrice: Prague: Divadlo (1962-1968)
Data di pubblicazione: 1962
Legatura: Brossura
Edizione: prima edizione
750 € > Harper’s Books
First Edition. Oblong octavos. Set of 20 issues
of the Czech dance and theater journal
Divadlo. Profusely illustrated with numerous
black-and-white photographs of actors on
and off the stage, including the first
appearance of Josef Koudelka's photographs
in print. Issued by the avant-garde company
Divadlo Za Branou, or Theater Beyond the
Gate, led by Otomar Krejca, the journal
highlighted late twentieth century
developments in European performance.
Koudelka began his professional
photographic career with the company,
demonstrating an early proclivity toward
modernist aesthetics and abstract forms that
he would continue in his renowned later
work. Each issue includes articles, interviews,
and script excerpts. Text in Czech. Not a
complete run of all of his early appearances,
but close. Uniformly very good in photo-
illustrated wrappers
Kral Ubu: Rozbor inscenace
Divadla Na Zabradli v Praze
1966
Kral Ubu: Rozbor inscenace Divadla Na
Zabradli v Praze (with Alfred Jarry)
Divadelni Ustav, Czechoslovakia, 1966
Rozbor insenace Divadla Na
zabradli v Praze
1966
Josef Koudelka
1968
Gitans : la fin du voyage (Fr)
Gypsies (US)
1975
Gitans : la fin du voyage
Paris: Delpire
ASIN B0014M0TV8

Gypsies
US: Aperture
ISBN 978-0-912334-74-5, 1975
Josef Koudelka: I Grandi
Fotografi
1982
Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, Italy, 1982
Josef Koudelka
1984

Photo Poche, Centre National de la


Photographie, France, 1984
Josef Koudelka. Photographs
by Josef Koudelka
1984
Introduction by Bernard Cuau
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris,
1984.
Autori vari
La mission photographique
de la Datar / Paysages
Photographies
Hazan, 1985
Copertina Morbida, 20.5×25.5 cm
I Edizione
518 pagine
Fotografie b/n
Lingua francese

Fotografie di Dominique Auerbacher, Lewis


Baltz, Gabriele Basilico, Raymond Depardon,
Robert Doisneau, Gilbert Fastenaekens, Jean-
Louis Garnell, Frank Gohlke, Josef Koudelka,
Sophie Ristelhueber, Holger Trülzch e altri.
Exils
1988

I Edition 1988
Paris: Centre National de la Photographie;
Paris: Delpire Editions;
New York: Aperture;
London: Thames & Hudson
ISBN 978-0-500-54208-8

Revised edition, 1997


Paris: Delpire Editions; € 200 > MiCamera
New York: Aperture, Di origine cecoslovacca e membro
Italia: Alinari dell’agenzia Magnum, Joseph Koudelka,
1.5 Kg nel 1961, inizia una documentazione
30×28 cm fotografica dedicata al popolo Tizigano e,
in genere, alle minoranze, a tutto ciò che è
Copertina Rigida
destinato ad estinguersi ed è, in qualche
160 Pagine
modo, “esiliato”. In questo contesto nasce il
65 Fotografie in b/n volume “Exils”, una serie di splendide
edizioni in lingua Italiana e francese fotografie scattate in Europa e negli Stati
ISBN: 978-8872922279 Uniti, dal 1968 ai primi anni ’80, che
documentano la straordinaria sensibilità
visiva di uno dei più grandi maestri della
Revised and expanded edition 2014
fotografia contemporanea “Exiles” è stato
London: Thames & Hudson pubblicato, per la prima volta, al Centre
ISBN 978-0-500-54441-9; National de la Photographie in occasione di
New York: Aperture una mostra presentata a Parigi, al Palais
de Tokyo, dal 16 marzo al 30 maggio 1988.
ISBN 978-1-59711-269-7 Ha ricevuto il premio come miglior libro di
Essay by Czesław Miłosz. Commentary fotografia dall’International Center of
with Josef Koudelka and Robert Delpire. Photography di New York.
Regards d’Acier
1988

Paperback: 127 pages


Publisher: Sollac & Magnum; 1st edition
(1988)
Language: English
ASIN: B015D6C35K
Dimensions: 12 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches

Sulla costruzione del tunnel sotto la Manica


Josef Koudelka
Mission Photographique
Transmanche
Cahier 6
1989
France: Editions de la Différence, 1989
Autori vari
Paysages photographies en
France les années quatre-vingt
1989
Editore: Hazan, Parigi 1989 (1 er Edition)
Copertina rigida, 28,5×28.5 cm
684 pagine, fotografie a colori e in b/n
Lingua francese
Paysages Photographies En France les années
quatre-vingt. Paris: La Mission
Photographique de la Datar
Fotografie di Dominique Auerbacher, Lewis
Baltz, Gabriele Basilico, Raymond Depardon,
Robert Doisneau, Gilbert Fastenaekens, Jean-
Louis Garnell, Frank Gohlke, Josef Koudelka,
Sophie Ristelhueber, Holger Trülzch e altri.
Animaux
1990

Trois Cailloux/maison de la Culture d'Amiens,


France, 1990.
Animaux (limited edition)
1990

SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION WITH 18 LOOSE, EXHIBITION-SIZE


HELIOGRAVURES
KOUDELKA, Josef. Animal. Photographies de Josef Koudelka. (Amiens,
France: Éditions Trois Cailloux, 1990). Quarto, original glossy black paper-
covered portfolio, original metallic silver sleeve, 18 heliogravures (9-1/2 by
12 inches), loose as issued, 4-page booklet signed on the rear page.

$1600 > Bauman rare Books

Signed limited first edition of the fourth volume in the acclaimed Trois
Cailloux “porte-folio” series, number 536 of 700 copies signed by Koudelka
on the booklet limitation page, with 18 exhibition-size heliogravures, an
exceptional collection by the “most potent and powerful photographer alive
today” (British Journal of Photography).
This exquisite portfolio of 18 exhibition-size heliogravures by Josef Koudelka
imagines a world where isolated animals roam, soar or linger in a landscape
free of humanity—though not its imprint. Featuring iconic images such as
Koudelka’s “photograph of a dead crow hanging from a horizontal barbed
wire, the very image that Robert Delpire had chosen for the cover of Josef
Koudelka (1984)” (Afterimage), this elegant edition of Animal confirms the
profound vision of “the most potent and powerful photographer alive today”
(British Journal of Photography). As in works such as Gypsies (1975) and
Black Triangle (1994), Koudelka’s distinctively “rich, dark-toned and
sumptuous photographs… [are] melodramatic and tragic, serious in the best
sense of the word” (Parr & Badger II:75, I:230). Signed limited first edition,
number 537 of 700 copies (with an additional 26 reserved copies, lettered A
to Z). Text by Ludvik Vaculik in French. See Open Book, 304.
A fine signed copy.
Prague 1968
1990

France: Centre National de la


Photographie,
Josef Koudelka: Fotografie
Divadlo za branou 1965–1970
1993
Divadlo za Branou II, Czech Republic, 1993
Josef Koudelka. Photographs
by Josef Koudelka
1993
Hasselblad Center, 1993.
Černý Trojuhelník –
Podkrušnohorí : Fotografie
1990–1994
The Black Triangle: The Foothills
of the Ore Mountain
Photographs 1990-1994
1994
2 editions:
:: standard edition, 1994 > 232 × 295 mm
onto one long accordion fold-out page with card box
76 pp, 34 b&w photographs
Paperback with cut-out card cover and accordion fold-out page
attached to cover, with card box
Editore: Správa Prazského, Prague

:: special folio edition > 233 × 597 mm


on individual pages, 1st Edition /100
Editore : Vesmir, First edition, first printing, unbound sheets
contained in a cardstock box with die-cut triangle exposing title label,
no dust jacket as issued
Editore: Podkrusnohri / Magnum Photos, Prague

Texts by Václev Havel and Josef Vavroušek, captions


by Zdeněk Stáhlík, Igor Míchal, and Petr Pakosta in
English, French, and Czech, one card and one
cardboard insert; concept and edited by Josef
Koudelka
Josef Koudelka: The Black Triangle: The Foothills of the Ore Mountains: 1990-1994 (Cerny trojuhelnik: Podkrusnohori / Le Triangle Noir: La
région située au pied des Monts métallifères: Fotografie: 1990-1994), Limited Edition [SIGNED]
KOUDELKA, Josef, HAVEL, Vaclav, VAVROUSEK, Josef
Publisher: Prague: Vesmir, 1994
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 8090113141
Specifics
First edition, first printing. Signed in black ink on the title sheet by Koudelka. Unbound sheets contained in a cardstock box with die-cut triangle
exposing title label; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Josef Koudelka. Text in Czech, English and French. Foreword by Vaclav Havel. Essay
by Josef Vavrousek. Includes a biography, exhibition history and bibliography. Unpaginated (39 sheets), with 34 panoramic black-and-white
plates (images measure 7 x 22-1/4 inches). Outer box measures 9-3/8 x 23-5/8 inches. This edition was limited to 100 unnumbered copies.
[Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).]
Description
From Magnum Photos: "This book is a photographic report in black and white on Podkrusnohori, the western tip of the infamous Black Triangle,
the foothills of the Ore Mountains. Jutting out into Poland, it is one of Europe's worst devastated territory, but it is also a region that shaped the
origin and future development of the Czech state. Coal mining, the first record of which dates back to 1403, has been the region's enormous
wealth as well as its curse. The industrial revolution facilitated an unprecedented upsurge of the living standards but at the cost of irreversible
changes in nature. 'Man is not an omniscient master of the planet who can get away with doing whatever he likes and whatever may suit him at
the moment'. That introductory quotation of Václav Havel is illustrated by Josef Koudelka's photographs of the land dominated by head frames,
waste heaps, factory stacks and dried-up lakes.“
Vesmir, Czech Republic
Casa editrice: [Prague]: (Podkrusnohri / Magnum Photos), (1994)
Oblong folio (233 × 597 mm), 37 leaves loose as issued. 34 Black-and-white photographs. In English, French, and Czech, one card and one
cardboard insert; light wear and toning to edges of leaves. Publisher’s die-cut cardboard portfolio with a printed triangle affixed to the cover,
velcro fastening; portfolio has light wear to edges with a couple of short closed tears and creases. An excellent copy. First edition, unfolded
issue, one of 100 copies produced in response to requests to have the images unfolded; ordinariy this book was bound in a folded accordion
format. Koudelka, who had been living in exile since 1970 as a result of his photographing of the 1968 Russian invasion of Prague, was able for
the first time to return to his homeland following the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Between 1991 and 1993 he made a series of panoramic
photographs in a region known as The Black Triangle, situated at the western tip of the coal mining region between Germany’s southern
Saxony, Poland’s Lower Silesia and the Czech Republic’s northern Bohemia. It is named after the triangular shape of the mountains and the
area’s notorious pollution.

Published on the occasion of the Black Triangle exhibit at the Prague Castle in 1994, this stunning collection of Koudelka panoramics examines
the ecological havoc caused by French coalmining in the Ore Mountain foothills.
Periplanissis: Following
Ulysses' Gaze
1995
KOUDELKA, Josef, BERGALA, Alain,
MANDAS, Margarita
Editore: Thessaloniki Filmfestival,
Thessaloniki, Greece
Data di pubblicazione: 1995
Legatura: Soft cover
Condizione libro: New
Condizione sovraccoperta: No dust jacket as
issued
Edizione: 1st Edition
€ 613

First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Printed


wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and
text (in English and Greek) by Josef Koudelka. Essays
(in English and Greek) by Alain Bergala and Margarita
Mandas. Includes a biography. Designed by Josef
Koudelka. Unpaginated (88 pp.), with 45 black-and-
white plates. 8-1/4 x 11-5/8 inches. Published to
accompany exhibitions in Thessaloniki, Athens and
London. This first edition was limited to 2000 copies.
New. A Mint copy. Koudelka's photographs here are
the result of his following Theo Angelopoulos and his
crew around the Balkans during the filming of Ulysses'
Gaze.
Josef Koudelka: Periplanissis: Following Ulysses' Gaze
KOUDELKA, Josef, BERGALA, Alain, MANDAS, Margarita
Publisher: Thessaloniki, Greece: Thessaloniki Filmfestival, 1995
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Soft cover
Specifics
First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Printed wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and text (in English and Greek)
by Josef Koudelka. Essays (in English and Greek) by Alain Bergala and Margarita Mandas. Includes a biography. Designed by
Josef Koudelka. Unpaginated (88 pp.), with 45 black-and-white plates. 8-1/4 x 11-5/8 inches. Published to accompany
exhibitions in Thessaloniki, Athens and London. This first edition was limited to 2000 copies.
Description
Koudelka's photographs here are the result of his following Theo Angelopoulos and his crew around the Balkans during the
filming of Ulysses' Gaze.
Photopoche: Josef Koudleka
1997

France: Cnp
ISBN 978-2-09-754114-7
Reconnaissance – Wales
1998

Editore FFOTOGALLERY, Cardiff Wales (1998)


Cardiff, UK: Fotogallery/ National Museums
and Galleries of Wales
I Edizione, 1998
0.6 Kg
23×28 cm
Copertina Rigida, Rilegatura a Leporello
48 Pagine
Fotografie in b/n
Lingua Inglese
ISBN: 978-1872771458

€ 630,00
Condizioni perfette, pari al nuovo> MiCamera

Architetture industriali e paesaggi


“contaminati” in formato panoramico in
questo bellissimo libro d’artista pubblicato in
edizione limitata di 1000 copie.
Titolo: Josef Koudelka: Reconnaissance-Wales
Casa editrice: Ffotogallery, in Association with Cardiff Bay Arts Trust, The National Museums and Galleries of Wales & Magnum Photos,
Cardiff, Wales
Data di pubblicazione: 1998
Legatura: Hardcover, No dust jacket as issued
Condizione libro: Near Fine
Edizione: 1st Edition.

Descrizione:
First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Heavy coverstock boards with title stamped in black on cover, black cloth spine, no dust jacket as issued.
Photographs by Josef Koudelka. Preface by Christopher Coppock. Essay by Derrick Price. Includes a selected biography and an illustrated list of
plates. Designed, edited and produced by Christopher Coppock. Unpaginated (48 pp.), Leporello (accordion-fold), with 16 tritone plates (each
are 2-page spreads), beautifully printed on 170gsm Parilux Matt White paper by Leeds Photo Litho. 9-1/4 x 11-1/4 inches. This first edition was
limited to 1000 copies.Published on the occasion of a 1998-1999 exhibition at the National Museums & Galleries of Wales, Cardiff, the Glynn
Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea and traveling to other locations. Near Fine (toning to the front cover and to the rear cover near the spine, slight
bump to lower left rear corner, else Fine). From the essay by Derrick Price: "From the early 1980s Josef Koudelka was traversing the world in
search of man-made and industrial landscapes which personified our uneasy relationship with nature. Memorable projects (as of 1998) include
two major bodies of work in France.photographing the remnants of the Berlin Wall in 1990; the war-torn centre of Beirut in 1992; and after he
was able to return to Czechoslovakia from exile, he started to photograph one of the most devastated landscapes in Europe, commonly known
as the Black Triangle, an area which borders the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland. In 1994 thirty-four large panoramic photographs were
published in an accompanying book of the same name, which reveal a fractured, littered, torn land which contains villages that have been
shattered by the rapacity of extractive industry. To travel to Cardiff and South Wales to record the aftermath of industry on this landscape was
clearly a natural extension for Koudleka's photographic practice; as was the employment of the epic panoramic format which he had developed
and refined so successfully from the mid-1980s.Koudelka works as though he is assembling a formal alphabet of derelictions: one which
maintains that objects have lost their old, familiar utility and are made strange by being dislocated, stranded, broken, sunk in mud, abandoned.
Koudelka has often been praised for his ability to show us the affliction of everyday existence, but these images, grounded in the land itself,
take on a monumental quality.Koudelka examines the landscape as though he were searching for its essential elements and the big, panoramic
photographs impose an aesthetic order upon the scenes of bleakness and desuetude in a way which lends them both grandeur and
poignancy.". Codice inventario libreria 106662
Josef Koudelka: Reconnaissance-Wales
KOUDELKA, Josef, PRICE, Derrick
Publisher: Cardiff, Wales: Ffotogallery, in Association with Cardiff Bay Arts Trust, The National Museums and Galleries of Wales & Magnum Photos,
1998
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1872771459
Specifics
First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Heavy coverstock boards with title stamped in black on cover, black cloth spine, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by
Josef Koudelka. Preface by Christopher Coppock. Essay by Derrick Price. Includes a selected biography and an illustrated list of plates. Designed, edited and
produced by Christopher Coppock. Unpaginated (48 pp.), Leporello (accordion-fold), with 16 tritone plates (each are 2-page spreads), beautifully printed on
170gsm Parilux Matt White paper by Leeds Photo Litho. 9-1/4 x 11-1/4 inches. This first edition was limited to 1000 copies.

Published on the occasion of a 1998-1999 exhibition at the National Museums & Galleries of Wales, Cardiff, the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea and traveling
to other locations.
Description
From the essay by Derrick Price: "From the early 1980s Josef Koudelka was traversing the world in search of man-made and industrial landscapes which
personified our uneasy relationship with nature. Memorable projects (as of 1998) include two major bodies of work in France...photographing the remnants of
the Berlin Wall in 1990; the war-torn centre of Beirut in 1992; and after he was able to return to Czechoslovakia from exile, he started to photograph one of
the most devastated landscapes in Europe, commonly known as the Black Triangle, an area which borders the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland. In 1994
thirty-four large panoramic photographs were published in an accompanying book of the same name, which reveal a fractured, littered, torn land which
contains villages that have been shattered by the rapacity of extractive industry. To travel to Cardiff and South Wales to record the aftermath of industry on this
landscape was clearly a natural extension for Koudleka's photographic practice; as was the employment of the epic panoramic format which he had developed
and refined so successfully from the mid-1980s...

Koudelka works as though he is assembling a formal alphabet of derelictions: one which maintains that objects have lost their old, familiar utility and are made
strange by being dislocated, stranded, broken, sunk in mud, abandoned. Koudelka has often been praised for his ability to show us the affliction of everyday
existence, but these images, grounded in the land itself, take on a monumental quality...Koudelka examines the landscape as though he were searching for its
essential elements and the big, panoramic photographs impose an aesthetic order upon the scenes of bleakness and desuetude in a way which lends them
both grandeur and poignancy.“
Chaos
1999
France: Nathan/Delpire;
UK: Phaidon Press;
Italy: Federico Motta Editore
ISBN 978-0-7148-4594-4
2.2 Kg
43×30 cm
I Edizione, 1999 Francese Nathan/Delpire, Paris
I Edizione, 1999 Inglese Phaidon Press, London
II Edizione, 2005
Copertina Rigida
112 Pagine
Fotografie in b/n
Breve Testo in Francese
ISBN: 978-2851072207
Riedizione in lingua francese

Buona parte dell’eccezionalità dell’opera di Koudelka consiste nel fatto che questo maestro incontestato della fotografia si esprime attraverso
l’estremo rigore delle sue composizioni. Le sue fotografie sono concentrate sull’essenziale: “Io, Koudelka, ero là e ho visto”. Ha visto, ad
esempio, gli zingari e il formicaio brulicante di Praga, le folle vociferanti e anonime, la solitudine, il duro cammino degli abbandoni, la ricerca di
un altrove. In Caos invece non ci sono più uomini. Se sono presenti è perché hanno perduto il senno. Dormono ai piedi di un muro. Non ci sono
più uccelli. La terra è avvelenata. Il mondo si è trasformato in un minerale. Restano le tracce della vita di prima: un albero come ricordo, il mare
a chiudere l’orizzonte. Koudelka preferisce le grandi pianure, le cave abbandonate, le fabbriche nelle quali una macchina prende il posto di
cento operai, i paesi disabitati e in questi spazi vuoti dice di amare la solitudine. L’eccezionalità di questo volume consiste anche nel presentare
opere realizzate utilizzando un nuovo formato “panoramico”: il 6×18, scoperto dal fotografo negli anni Ottanta, ma presente da tempo nella
storia della fotografia, usato sempre e solo, però, per scopi spettacolari o aneddotici. Per il fotografo, il cambiamento di formato può essere
paragonato al passaggio dall’olio all’acquarello per un pittore: la nuova tecnica richiede una continua messa in discussione, un continuo
apprendimento e una costante ricerca di innovazione. Pazientemente e con costanza Koudelka si adatta a questa visione particolare e la
penetra a tal punto da rinnovarla radicalmente. Le 108 fotografie di questo volume mostrano la forza di tale rinnovamento. La scelta del grande
formato corrisponde all’esatta preoccupazione di restituire la “presenza” del formato panoramico. Allo stesso tempo la cura e l’originalità
dell’impaginato che alterna foto orizzontali a doppia pagina e polittici verticali, manifestano tutta la ricchezza e raffinatezza di un’opera
Lime Stone
2001

Introduction by Jean-Pierre Berghmans. Essay by Gilles A Tiberghien. Captions by


plant managers. Design by Xavier Barral
1 Kg
225 x 295 mm, 84 pp
Hardback with accordion fold-out page attached to back cover
84 pages. 36 black and white photographs
Lingua Inglese, Francese e Tedesca
ISBN: 978-2732428383
2 edizioni:
:1: company edition for the Groupe Lhoist, 2001
/2000 copie numerate
Hardback with full grey cloth and a single accordion fold-out panorama sheet
attached to back cover
Cardboard box still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher`s plastic foil

:2: trade edition by Éditions de la Matiniere, Paris. 2001


/500 copie numerate
ISBN: 2-7324-2838-8
ART...on paper - 20th Century Art Books (Lugano, Svizzera) > CHF 1250 Nuovo

36 spectacular black-and-white accordion fold panoramas printed in gravure on


heavy coated stock that measure approximately 7.5 x 22.5 inches (each
reproduction is the length of two folded pages), the book is bound in gray paper
covered boards with gray endpapers and housed in a corrugated cardboard
clamshell case that measures approximately 10 x 13 inches
Josef Koudelka: Limestone (Lhoist), Limited Edition
KOUDELKA, Josef, TIBERGHIEN, Gilles A.
Publisher: Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, 2001
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 2732428388
Specifics
First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies (this being #500/500), stamp numbered on the colophon page. Hardcover. Gray paper-
covered boards, with gray endpapers, housed in a corrugated cardboard clamshell case, no dust jacket as issued. Panoramic photographs by Josef Koudelka.
Essay (in English, French and German) by Gilles A. Tiberghien. Includes a biography and captions written by the plant managers. 72 pp. with 36 black and white
plates. The image size of each plate is 7-3/8 x 22-5/8 inches beautifully printed on heavy stock paper (each reproduction is the length of two folded pages). All
pages are attached in a Leporello (accordion-fold) 72 total pages in length. 9-1/8 x 12 inches (the clamshell box is 10-1/8 x 13-1/2 x 2 inches). Out of print (sold
out shortly after released). Scarce. [Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).]
Description
From the Introduction by Jean-Pierre Berghmans: "Over a period of two years, Josef Koudelka traveled through the quarries of the Groupe Lhoist in Europe and
America. His camera leads us through our sites and Josef shows us that the industrial exploitation of deposits -- whilst providing the society we live in with an
indispensable product -- can also bring a fascinating dimension to the landscape. Born less than a kilometre away from a quarry, I had always felt that
industrial sites had nothing but a functional aspect and were devoid of any aesthetic interest. Josef Koudelka has opened my eyes to the beauty of these
landscapes. Nature is far stronger than any of us. Josef Koudelka's work is a moving account of nature's infinite capacity for asserting itself."

From the essay by Gilles A. Tiberghien: "Here, the hand of Man is everywhere. Nature is transformed, turned upside down. There is not a square centimetre
which has escaped his touch, which has not been carved out, excavated, tamped, or recuperated. Everywhere on the ground the machines have left the trace
of their work, showing ever more clearly the presence of cables, pipes, metal girders, steel balls, and dismembered mechanical arms. Nevertheless, we see no
one. Here is no human outline to indicate the scale of things, to help us understand their significance. These images show us a world apparently removed from
itself. As a result, our eyes must learn to observe, as if for the first and last time, a world of which we believe we are the masters, but actually going beyond
what we are capable of imagining, its force rendering derisory the few marks left on its surface. This is a world which is not for Man, a world over which he has
little or no sway, a world which suddenly strikes us, rather as when at low tide our eyes seam to reach out to the horizon leaving us with the feeling of being
alien to the land which the sea is soon to cover again, like the waters that covered the continents millions of years ago when consciousness had not yet
emerged.“
1. edition for the Groupe Lhoist, 2001
/2000 copie numerate
Hardback with a single accordion fold-out panorama sheet
attached to back cover
Cardboard box still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher`s
plastic foil
Strongly limited edition of 2000 copies only; here: number
966.
2. Éditions de la Matiniere, Paris. 2001
/500 copie numerate
ISBN: 2-7324-2838-8
36 spectacular black-and-white accordion fold panoramas printed in
gravure on heavy coated stock that measure approximately 7.5 x 22.5
inches (each reproduction is the length of two folded pages), the book
is bound in gray paper covered boards with gray endpapers and
housed in a corrugated cardboard clamshell case that measures
approximately 10 x 13 inches
the book is bound in gray paper covered boards with gray endpapers
and housed in a corrugated cardboard clamshell case that measures
approximately 10 x 13 inches. The book is in FINE condition and the
cardboard case is in FINE- condition with minimal wear.

Strongly limited edition of 500 copies only


Publisher: Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, 2001
ISBN 10: 2732428388 ISBN 13: 9782732428383
Softcover

“La mano dell’uomo è ovunque. La natura si trasforma, viene


capovolta. Non c’è un centimetro quadrato riuscito a sfuggire al
suo tocco, che non è stato scavato, dissestato, calpestato e
riadattato. Ovunque si vedono i segni lasciati dalle macchine,
sulla terra le tracce del loro lavoro. Sempre più si notano cavi,
tubi, travi metalliche, sfere d’acciaio e bracci meccanici. In
questo lavoro si vede tutto questo, ma nessuna presenza. Nessun
contorno umano ad indicare la scala delle cose, nessuna figura
per aiutarci a capire il loro significato. Ci troviamo di fronte ad
immagini di un mondo apparentemente rimosso da se stesso.”
Josef Koudelka
2002

Czech Republic: Torst


ISBN 978-80-7215-166-0
En Chantier
2002

Photographs by Aymeric Fouquez and Josef


Koudelka
En Chantier
Une Universite et un quartier Paris 13e
Massena
Textuel, Paris, 2002
30 pages
First edition
Hardcover.
Stiff boards with 30 accordion fold pages
Black and white reproductions
400x197mm
14 pages en léporello double face (28 pages)
de photographies panoramiques
A combined effort between Josef Koudelka and
Aymeric Fouquez, this beautifully produced book
documents the transformation of the Massena
neighborhood from a traditionally industrial area
to a university neighborhood. Some of Koudelka's
finest panoramic work.
Théâtre du Temps
2003

Théâtre du Temps
1st French Edition: Actes Sud, Arles, 2003
Teatro del Tempo
1st Italian Edition: Peliti Associati;
1st Greece Edition: Apeiron

Copertina morbida + cofanetto, 29.5×21.5 cm


75 pagine, fotografie b/n
Lingua Italiana
Hardcover (boxed)
ISBN# 10: 2742744355
ISBN# 13: 9782742744350
56 pages (accordion-bound)
8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches

Published on the occasion of the 2003 exhibition Théâtre du Temps: Rome, 1999-
2003. This book contains a mere 25 images, gorgeously printed, of work made in
Rome over the past three years.
Questo libro accoglie le fotografie panoramiche di Roma realizzate da Josef
Koudelka. È Roma il teatro del tempo, un teatro vuoto, almeno apparentemente,
poiché numerosi passanti l’hanno attraversata. Tuttavia, proprio per il fatto di
essere “passanti”, non sono mai rimasti a lungo. Roma appare quindi come una
città scarnificata, che il fotografo ha aspettato, come in agguato, all’alba, quando
essa non è che anatomia, raschiata dai suoi cittadini, asciutta, solo un’edilizia
stanca di ospitare. Il volume è rilegato in modo da dare una visione completa e
panoramica delle immagini; le pagine formano un tutt’uno che può essere
disteso completamente per sedici metri.
Josef Koudelka: Théâtre du Temps (Theatre du Temps): Rome, 1999-2003
KOUDELKA, Josef
Publisher: Arles: Actes Sud, 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 2742744355
Specifics
First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Leporello (accordion-bound), with white laminated printed paper-covered boards, in a
matching white printed cardboard slipcase, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Josef Koudelka. Texts (in French) by Erri
de Luca and Diego Mormorio. Translation from Italian by Marguerite Pozzoli. Designed by Giovanni Lussu. Unpaginated (56
pp.), with 25 two-page black and white plates, exquisitely printed (on one side of sheets) on heavy-stock fine paper by
Prostamp Sud, Santa Palomba, Rome. 8-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches. Published on the occasion of the 2003 exhibition Théâtre du
Temps: Rome, 1999-2003, organized by Marco Delogu, at the International Festival, Rome. Out of print.
Description
From the publisher: "The legendary Magnum photographer Josef Koudelka has just added another volume of terrific
panoramic photographs to his bibliography. Koudelka, who was born in Moravia (within the Czech Republic) in 1938, first won
international acclaim for his poignant b&w studies of gypsy communities in the 1960s. His surreptitious documentation of the
invasion of Prague by Warsaw Pact armies set him apart, and ultimately got him into the prestigious Magnum Agency. For
years now he has been working with a panoramic camera, slowly putting out stunning images that often finding their way into
books of limited availability. Theatre du Temps contains a mere 25 images, gorgeously printed, of work made in Rome over the
past three years.”
L'épreuve totalitaire
2004

(essay by Jean-Pierre Montier)


Delpire, France
Camargue
2006

Actes Sud, 2006


Copertina morbida, 30 x 23,5 cm
64 pagine rilegate a fisarmonica
Fotografie in b/n
Breve testo in lingua francese
ISBN 978-2-7427-6174-6

€ 60 > MiCamera

Il lavoro commissionato al fotografo Magnum


in occasione degli incontri internazionali di
fotografia di Arles attraverso le immagini
panoramiche dei litorali della Camargue.
Josef Koudelka: Camargue
KOUDELKA, Josef, GIONO, Jean
Publisher: Arles: Actes Sud, in association with the Conservatoire du Littoral, 2006
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Soft cover
ISBN: 2742761748
Specifics
First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Gray cardstock wrappers with title debossed on cover, enclosing the accordion-fold
(leporello) book; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Josef Koudelka. Essay (in French) by Jean Giono. Unpaginated, with
21 black-and-white plates printed as two-page spreads. 9-1/4 x 11-1/8 inches.
Description
In this collection of panoramic photographs, Josef Koudelka takes as his subject the vast river delta south of Arles, France.
Known as the Camargue, this marshland stretches all the way to the Mediterranean Sea from the River Rhone. Koudelka's
bucolic compositions eloquently capture the wild, isolated feel of the place.
Koudelka
2006

France: Delpire;
Italy: Contrasto;
US: Aperture;
UK: Thames & Hudson;
Germany: Braus;
Spain: Lunwerg;
Czech Republic: Fototorst
Joseph Koudelka Photofile
2007

Thames & Hudson


ISBN 978-0-500-41083-7
Invasion 68: Prague
2008

US: Aperture Foundation


ISBN 978-1-59711-068-6;
France: Editions Tana
ISBN 978-2-84567-438-7
Koudelka Piedmont
2010

Contrasto
ISBN 978-88-6965-217-2

Piemonte
Casa editrice: Editions Xavier Barral
Data di pubblicazione: 2009
Legatura: senza rilegatura
Roma
2011

Steidl, Göttingen
ISBN 9783869303888
Lime
2012

Editore: Lhoist/ Xavier Barral, Paris (2012)


I Edizione
Copertina rigida + cofanetto, 24x33cm
248 pagine, fotografie b/n
Lingua francese e inglese
ISBN 978-2-9151-7385-7

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Causa ed effetto della mano dell’uomo sul


paesaggio
Wall
2013

Aperture Foundation
ISBN 978-1-5971-1241-3
Joseph Koudelka
Industries
2017
Éditions Xavier-Barral
Exposition
Biennale Foto/Industria, Bologne
12 octobre – 19 novembre 2017
 
Relié avec spirales
42 x 30 cm à l'italienne
102 pages, 40 photographies N&B
Textes (bilingues FR-ENG)
• François Barré, ancien président des Rencontres d’Arles
• François Hébel, directeur artistique de la biennale Foto/Industria
de Bologne
 
Publié avec le soutien de la Fondation MAST
ISBN : 978-2-36511-137-9

Josef Koudelka découvre le format panoramique en 1986 lorsqu’il participe à la mission


photographique de la DATAR. Il sillonne alors la France, puis le monde entier pendant les
30 années suivantes, pour rendre compte de l’influence de l’homme sur le paysage. Cet
ouvrage, à la reliure en carton brut et au format imposant (42x30cm), rassemble 40
photographies panoramiques choisies par l’artiste avec la complicité de François Hébel. 
Ces photographies témoignent des grands travaux, des usines aux carrières, en passant par
d’énormes complexes miniers mais aussi des paysages indéterminés. Elles transportent le
lecteur dans des lieux habituellement inaccessibles où règnent « une dramaturgie
poétique » (François Hébel) entre sublime et désarroi, témoignage de cette ère industrielle
que l’on tente aujourd’hui de faire disparaître.
Un texte de François Hébel retrace le parcours photographique de Josef Koudelka et
témoigne de la fascination qu’exercent ces paysages industriels sur le photographe depuis
plus de 30 ans tandis que l’essai de François Barré contextualise cet ensemble dans
l’histoire du paysage.
Mostecko / Humboldtka
11 Prints (Bromide)

Authors: Sudek, Josef – Julis, Emil – Kozel,


Dalibor – Kopecky, Dalibor
Sm.8° Ob. (125x240mm)
Portfolio containing 11 Panorma Prints
(Bromide) by Josef Sudek, rapresenting the
Landscape (Coal Mines) of Mostecka
First edition, published in 2000 copies
Cover design and photo by J. Sudek Bohdan
Kopecky, a poem Emil Julis, notes Dalibor
Koze
Original pictorial (Photo J. Sudek) slipcase
In Very good condition.

CHF 950.00 > ART … on paper Lugano


Jaroslav Bocek
Josef Sudek

sq. 325 x 320 mm / unpaginated 83 orig.


photographs, made by Czech photographer
Miroslav Khol from the original Sudek’s
negatives
First edition published to celebrate the 100
anniversary of his birth (1896)
300 copies in orig. editors box

CHF 1050.00 > ART … on paper Lugano

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