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Josef KoudelKa
decreazione
SIZE: 29,8 x 22,7 cm
PAGES: 26
PHOTOGRAPHS: 9 black and white
BINDING: leporello with case
ISBN: 978-88-6965-487-9
PRICE: 45,00 euro, £ 40,00, USD 49,00
A Great Project.
A Master Photographer.
For the first time Holy See Pavilion at Venice Biennale
THE BOOK
Decreazione is a Josef Koudelka’s project conceived
for the Holy See Pavilion at Venice Biennale
2013.
The author has been searching since a few years a
focus on the relationship between Man and Nature and to show the influence of the men on the
environment, as he wants to highlight that it is exactly this influence the very often cause of a kind
of “destruction”, a de-creaction -Decreazione.
The book is a leaflet with 9 panoramic photographies taken from Germany to Lebanon, from
Slovak Republic to Jordan, from Greece to Italy
has a peculiar binding to be shown as an artist’s
edition.
Double language, English Italian, texts.
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THE AUTOR
Josef Koudelka, born in Moravia, made his first photographs while a student in the 1950s. About the same time that he started his career
as an aeronautical engineer in 1961 he also began photographing Gypsies in Czechoslovakia and theater in Prague. He turned full-time
to photography in 1967. The following year, Koudelka photographed the Soviet invasion of Prague, publishing his photographs under the
initials P. P. (Prague Photographer) for fear of reprisal to him and his family. In 1969, he was anonymously awarded the Overseas Press
Club’s Robert Capa Gold Medal for those photographs. Koudelka left Czechoslovakia for political asylum in 1970 and shortly thereafter
joined Magnum Photos. In 1975, he brought out his first book Gypsies, and in 1988, Exiles. Since 1986, he has worked with a panoramic
camera and issued a compilation of these photographs in his book Chaos in 1999. Koudelka has had more than a dozen books of his work
published, including most recently in 2008 Invasion Prague 68. He has won significant awards such as the Prix Nadar (1978), a Grand Prix
National de la Photographie (1989), a Grand Prix Cartier-Bresson (1991), and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (1992). Significant exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography,
New York; the Hayward Gallery, London; the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Fondazione Forma,
Milan and Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome. In 1992, Koudelka was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Ministry
of French Culture. He currently divides his time between Paris and Prague.
FOR INFORMATION
BARBARA BARATTOLO
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