7.23.2012

ARLES REPORT: Josef Koudelka "Gypsies" Book Dummies

Roumanie (Romania), 1968
Photograph © Josef Koudelka / Magnum Photos
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Photographs © Josef Koudelka / Magnum Photos

Les Recontres Arles Photography
Josef Koudelka Exhibition, Arles, France

Les Recontres Arles Photography
Koudelka's exceptional photographs exhibited for the first time together


GYPSIES

"In 1975, the first edition of Josef Koudelka's photographs by Robert Delpire in a book that became a myth and was never published again. In 2011, Josef Koudelka exhumed a former dummy of the same book and decided to re-publish it with a larger amount of photographs."

The Koudelka exhibition's exceptional photographs, exhibited for the first time together, tells through published documents the story of those two books published with a 36 year gap."


"Dummy identical to the book published in 2011, which will be published in this small format in autumn 2013."


"Czech Dummy (Please don't lose it again)"

Letter from Elliott Erwitt reporting to Josef Koudelka on the loss of the "Gypsie" dummy.



"In 1975, the first edition of Josef Koudelka's photographs by Robert Delpire in a book that became a myth and was never published again."

The Koudelka exhibition's exceptional photographs, exhibited for the first time together, tells through published documents the story of those two books published with a 36 year gap."

Les Recontres Arles Photography
Josef Koudelka Exhibition to September 23

Exhibition produced with the collaboration of Magnum Photos. Prints by Vojin Mitrovic, Georges Fevre, Picto. Framing partly by Circad, Paris.

...more on Arles here and here

5 comments:

R Montalban said...

I love Koudelka's work, thank you for sharing this exhibition.

d. moll, l.ac. said...

looks like there are some amazing photos

Carrie said...

I'm so glad to see your posting on this. Seeing this work was an absolute highlight of the festival for me.

Valéry Lorenzo said...

Always and forever !
I was there last week... and always loved spending time in this city.
The Musée Réattu is also a great place to take a break in the shade of a sun very generous.

:-)

Susan May Tell said...

Merci Beaucoup - fantastic blog post!