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Nationality Doubtful 

July 23, 2014 
by Josef Koudelka 
Exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago (June 7, 2014, to September 14, 2014), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (November 11, 2014, to March 22, 2015) and at the Fundacion MAPFRE, Madrid (September 15, 2015, to November 29, 2015).

This retrospective catalog features vintage prints as well as recent, unpublished work by Josef Koudelka. He has been a legend since the publication of his unforgettable eyewitness photographs taken during the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet-led troops in 1968. In addition to Invasion and Exiles, Koudelka’s most ambitious project, Gypsies, is featured with the complete set of twenty-two prints first exhibited in 1967. Koudelka’s impressive imagery is accompanied here by five essays that provide a thorough understanding of and appreciation for this outstanding artist, willfully independent and reclusive despite his renown.

Matthew S. Witkovsky is the Richard and Ellen Sandor Chair and Curator, department of photography, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Amanda Maddox is assistant curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Stuart Alexander is a vice president at Christie’s in New York and an independent scholar and curator. Gilles A. Tiberghien is a professor of aesthetics at the University of Paris.

Format: Softcover
Size: 31 x 24 cm
Pages: 224
Publisher: Yale University Press. New Haven and London, 2014.
Edited by Matthew S. Witkovsky; With contributions by Stuart Alexander, Amanda Maddox, Gilles A. Tiberghien, and Matthew S. Witkovsky.