Josef Koudelka

Next: A Visual Biography by Melissa Harris

Melissa Harris, Josef Koudelka, Ale Najbrt

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Aperture
28 February 2024

Individual photographers; Biography: arts & entertainment

An intimate portrait of the life and work of one of photography's most renowned and celebrated artists. Throughout his more than sixty-year-long obsession with the medium, Josef Koudelka considers a remarkable range of photographic subjects - from his early theater work, to his seminal project on the Roma and his legendary coverage of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague, to the solitariness of exile and the often-devastating impact humans have had on the landscape. Josef Koudelka: Next embraces all of Koudelka's projects and his evolution as an artist in the context of his life story and working process, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the mind and world of this notoriously private photographer. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of almost a decade with Koudelka

- as well as ongoing conversations with his friends, family, colleagues and collaborators worldwide - this deftly told, richly illustrated biography offers an unprecedented glimpse into the mind of this notoriously private photographer. Writer, editor and curator Melissa Harris has independently crafted a unique, in-depth, and revelatory personal history of both the man and his photography.

Josef Koudelka: Next is richly illustrated with hundreds of photographs, including many biographical and behind-the-scenes images from Koudelka's life, as well as iconic images from his work, from the 1950s to the present. The visual presentation is conceived in collaboration with Koudelka himself, as well as his longtime collaborator, Czech designer Ale Najbrt.

By: Melissa Harris
Designed by: Ale Najbrt
Photographs by: Josef Koudelka
Imprint: Aperture
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 184mm,
ISBN: 9781597114653
ISBN 10: 1597114650
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 28 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Melissa Harris is editor-at-large of Aperture and served as editor-in-chief of Aperture magazine from 2000 to 2012. Harris teaches at New York University's Photography and Imaging Department at Tisch, and occasionally at Yale University. She is a trustee of the John Cage Trust and author of A Wild Life: A Visual Biography of Photographer Michael Nichols (Aperture, 2017). Josef Koudelka (born in Moravia, Czech Republic, 1938) is a member of Magnum Photos and has received the Prix Nadar, Grand Prix National de la Photographie, HCB Award, and Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and International Center of Photography, New York; Hayward Gallery, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Ale Najbrt studied typography and book design with Jan Solpera at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague. He was an art director of the influential Czech weekly Reflex and founder of his own magazine, Raut. With Pavel Lev, he cofounded Studio Najbrt.

Reviews for Josef Koudelka: Next: A Visual Biography by Melissa Harris

“He has been called ‘larger than life,’ but Koudelka’s essence derives from his obsessive, at times even myopic, engagement in life. He’s too present to be legendary, as he’s so often described. To reduce him to legend is to consider only the construct, the surface . . . ” —Melissa Harris “This is a big book: deeply reported, impeccably contextualized, and both artistically and politically illuminating.” —Design Observer “Melissa Harris’s visual biography, intriguingly titled Next, was written with [Josef Koudelka’s] cooperation, and is a thorough and informative overview of his life and work. Rich in personal ephemera—family portraits, snapshots and glimpses of his many journals—it traces his trajectory from Boskovice, a small town in Moravia, where he had dreams of becoming an engineer, to his status as one of the world’s most revered photographers.” —Guardian “A thrilling and compelling portrait of the artist as he has evolved throughout the course of his life and career. Literally a page-turner.” —Paul Wilson, former band member Plastic People of the Universe