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Ikonar

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Ikonar, tel est le surnom donné à Josef Koudelka par un groupe de Roms qu’il a longuement fréquenté : Ikonar, c’est-à-dire le « faiseur d’icônes ». Et en effet, les tirages qu’il leur avait offerts étaient utilisés comme des images quasi religieuses dans leur lieu de prière. Mais Koudelka n’est pas seulement un « créateur de photographies » mondialement reconnu, il est aussi un prolifique « collectionneur d’images », un artiste du livre, un concepteur d’expositions, un archiviste passionné, un documentaliste de sa propre existence… En plus de cinq somptueux portfolios regroupant les œuvres majeures de Koudelka, IKONAR – Constellations de l’archive rend accessible un grand nombre de documents inédits datant des années 1960 à 2012. Il s’agit en particulier de planches contacts, choisies parmi les plus de 30’000 réalisées par le photographe, et qui, mises en regard de l’œuvre proprement dite, offrent un aperçu absolument inédit des processus de création de Josef Koudelka.

Un ouvrage unique, publié à l’occasion de l’exposition éponyme au musée Photo Elysée, à Lausanne, du 4 novembre 2022 au 31 janvier 2023.

268 pages, Hardcover

First published November 3, 2022

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Josef Koudelka

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Josef Koudelka was born in Czechoslovakia in 1938. He began his career as an aeronautical engineer, and started photographing gypsies in his spare time in 1962, before turning full-time to photography in the late 1960s. In 1968 Koudelka photographed the Soviet invasion of Prague, publishing his photographs under the initials P.P. (Prague photographer). In 1969, he was anonymously awarded the Overseas Press Club’s Robert Capa Gold Medal for the photographs. Koudelka left Czechoslovakia seeking political asylum in 1970, and shortly thereafter he joined Magnum Photos.

In 1975 his first book, Gypsies, was published by Aperture, and subsequent titles include Exiles (1988), Chaos (1999), Invasion 68: Prague (2008), and Wall (2013) and, most recently Ruines (2020). Koudelka has won major awards, such as the Prix Nadar (1978), Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), Grand Prix Cartier-Bresson (1991), and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (1992).

Exhibitions of his work have been held at The Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography, New York; Hayward Gallery, London; Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Art Institute of Chicago; and Museum of Decorative Arts and the National Gallery, Prague. In 2012, he was named Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. He is currently based in Paris and Prague.

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