Chaos - Hardcover

Delpire, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714839000 ISBN 13: 9780714839004

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 1999

Synopsis

For the past 12 years, Koudelka has made photographs using a panoramic format camera, exploring its formal possibilities with rigour and originality, and "Chaos" is the fulfilment of Koudelka's panoramic vision. "Paradoxically, the images in "Chaos" viciously expose the anarchy which man imposes on nature and on himself" writes Robert Delpire in his foreword, "beyond all controversy, they denounce the absurdity of a world turned into a scene of dereliction. Josef Koudelka recreates a dream space, an elsewhere beyond time, beyond location, within which he organizes the shapeless and the chaotic". "Chaos" is dramatic, provocative and beautiful. Koudelka's next publishing landmark, it will have a powerful impact within the art and photography world.

About this title

From the Publisher

Published to coincide with an exhibition of Josef Koudelka's work, this volume presents the photographs he has taken using a panoramic format camera over a 12 year period.

About the Author

Robert Delpire is an editor, art director and curator. From 1982 to 1996 he was Director of the Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, where he curated over 150 exhibitions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0714839000
• ISBN 13: 9780714839004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112