Eustachy Kossakowski - The Lights of Chartes

Eustachy Kossakowski
The Lights of Chartres
Year: 1983-1989
Medium: photography
Format: 40×29 cm

Eustachy Kossakowski, The Lights of Chartres, 1983

12 color prints on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 g/m² paper made from original Eustachy Kossakowski’s negatives

The Lights of Chartres is one of the most important photographic series created by Eustachy Kossakowski – it is also an exceptional departure from black-and-white photography in favor of color. The artist documents the light gleaming on the walls of the medieval cathedral in Chartres. This impressive book, containing photographs from Chartres, published by Jean-Claude Lattes in 1989, was voted the most beautiful French book of the decade in a magazine Lire plebiscite. As a result of the very good reception of the series, Eustachy Kossakowski entered the history books of French photography.