Josef Koudelka - LIME [MINT CONDITION] - 2012

KOUDELKA JOSEF - LIME. LARGE XL COLLECTOR'S EDITION, WITH SLIPCASE, MAJOR PHOTOBOOK.

PERFECT MINT CONDITION !

Photography Book MAJOR by Josef Koudelka, silver gelatin photographs printed on high-quality paper, an essential Masterpiece of Photography. Beauty in desolation, industrial and mining landscapes. A book in absolutely MINT condition, perfect! A unique volume, published in 2012 by Barral Limited Publishing in a limited edition, hardcover format with slipcase, 250 sublime pages, ultra high-resolution photographs of landscapes captured across multiple continents by Josef Koudelka over years.

Black-and-white duotone photography. A benchmark photography book, ultra photogenic and magnificent, in the form of a grand illustrated retrospective of Koudelka's photographic work in remote industrial and mining territories around the world.

Some descriptive elements:

"Lime. Like the great painters of the 19th century, Josef Koudelka chose quarries as his subject. Invited by the world’s leading mining group, he roamed quarries around the world for four years. He returned with black-and-white photographs that evoke a landscape of the end of the world. In these images the hand of man is everywhere, but no human presence gives scale to the things. Everywhere nature is transformed, unsettled by him. With this book, Josef Koudelka touches something universal, a very contemporary reflection on human labor that shapes the landscape.

When one looks at these landscapes, for it is above all a book about landscape, the prism of Land art imposes itself on the viewer.

Josef Koudelka was born in Moravia in 1938. Initially an engineer in aerospace, he turned entirely to photography in the late 1960s. His photographs of the Soviet intervention in Prague in 1968, published under the initials P. P. (for “Prague Photographer”), earned him the Overseas Press Club’s Robert Capa Gold Medal, anonymously. In 1970, he fled Czechoslovakia as a political refugee and soon after joined Magnum Photos. In 1975, the first edition of Gitans, la fin du voyage, was published, followed by more than a dozen other books, notably Exils (1988), Chaos (1999) and Invasion Prague 68 (2008). "

A unique, sublime exemplar, truly indispensable and timeless!

Condition: EXCELLENT. MINT CONDITION.

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