Josef Koudelka: Exiles

Josef Koudelka: Exiles

About <i>Exiles</i>, Cornell Capa once wrote, <q>Koudelka's unsentimental, stark, brooding, intensely human imagery reflects his own spirit, the very essence of an exile who is at home wherever his wandering body finds haven in the night.</q> In this newly revised and expanded edition of the 1988 classic, which includes ten new images and a new commentary with Robert Delpire, Koudelka's work once more forms a powerful document of the spiritual and physical state of exile. The sense of private mystery that fills these photographs€"mostly taken during Koudelka's many years of wandering through Europe and Great Britain since leaving his native Czechoslovakia in 1968€"speaks of passion and reserve, of his rage to see. Solitary, moving, deeply felt and strangely disturbing, the images in <i>Exiles</i> suggest alienation, disconnection and love. <i>Exiles</i> evokes some of the most compelling and troubling themes of the twentieth century, while resonating with equal force in this current moment of profound migrations and transience.