EXILS - Josef Koudelka
Of Exiles, Cornell Capa wrote: "Koudelka's unsentimental, austere, melancholy and intensely human images reflect his own spirit, the very essence of an exile who feels at home wherever his wandering body finds refuge in the night." Koudelka's work is once again a powerful document of the spiritual and physical state of exile. The sense of intimate mystery that pervades these photographs, taken for the most part during Koudelka's many years of wandering across Europe since leaving his native Czechoslovakia in 1968, testifies to his passion and reserve, his rage to see. Lonely, moving, deeply felt and strangely unsettling, the images in Exiles suggest alienation, disconnection and love. Exiles, edited and sequenced by Koudelka and Robert Delpire, evokes some of the most captivating and disturbing themes of the 20th century, while resonating with equal force in today's context of profound migration and transience.
"To be in exile is simply to have left your country and not be able to return. Every exile is a different, personal experience. For me, I wanted to see the world and photograph it. I've been traveling for forty-five years. I've never stayed in one place for more than three months. When I had nothing left to photograph, it was time to leave,
- Josef Koudelka in an interview published in Le Monde in 2015.
Published by Centre National de la Photographie, 1988
65 pages,
26 x 28 cm
ISBN: 2-86754-044-5
Of Exiles, Cornell Capa wrote: "Koudelka's unsentimental, austere, melancholy and intensely human images reflect his own spirit, the very essence of an exile who feels at home wherever his wandering body finds refuge in the night." Koudelka's work is once again a powerful document of the spiritual and physical state of exile. The sense of intimate mystery that pervades these photographs, taken for the most part during Koudelka's many years of wandering across Europe since leaving his native Czechoslovakia in 1968, testifies to his passion and reserve, his rage to see. Lonely, moving, deeply felt and strangely unsettling, the images in Exiles suggest alienation, disconnection and love. Exiles, edited and sequenced by Koudelka and Robert Delpire, evokes some of the most captivating and disturbing themes of the 20th century, while resonating with equal force in today's context of profound migration and transience.
"To be in exile is simply to have left your country and not be able to return. Every exile is a different, personal experience. For me, I wanted to see the world and photograph it. I've been traveling for forty-five years. I've never stayed in one place for more than three months. When I had nothing left to photograph, it was time to leave,
- Josef Koudelka in an interview published in Le Monde in 2015.
Published by Centre National de la Photographie, 1988
65 pages,
26 x 28 cm
ISBN: 2-86754-044-5
Of Exiles, Cornell Capa wrote: "Koudelka's unsentimental, austere, melancholy and intensely human images reflect his own spirit, the very essence of an exile who feels at home wherever his wandering body finds refuge in the night." Koudelka's work is once again a powerful document of the spiritual and physical state of exile. The sense of intimate mystery that pervades these photographs, taken for the most part during Koudelka's many years of wandering across Europe since leaving his native Czechoslovakia in 1968, testifies to his passion and reserve, his rage to see. Lonely, moving, deeply felt and strangely unsettling, the images in Exiles suggest alienation, disconnection and love. Exiles, edited and sequenced by Koudelka and Robert Delpire, evokes some of the most captivating and disturbing themes of the 20th century, while resonating with equal force in today's context of profound migration and transience.
"To be in exile is simply to have left your country and not be able to return. Every exile is a different, personal experience. For me, I wanted to see the world and photograph it. I've been traveling for forty-five years. I've never stayed in one place for more than three months. When I had nothing left to photograph, it was time to leave,
- Josef Koudelka in an interview published in Le Monde in 2015.
Published by Centre National de la Photographie, 1988
65 pages,
26 x 28 cm
ISBN: 2-86754-044-5
