Josef Koudelka Next

Josef Koudelka Next presents an intimate portrait of the work of one of the greatest contemporary photographers. This unique biography, the fruit of more than ten years of exchanges between Melissa Harris and Josef Koudelka, who is known to be stingy with his confidences, reveals for the first time the photographer’s approach.

In the more than sixty years since his passion for photography began, Josef Koudelka has captured the major cultural and political changes in twentieth-century Europe, as evidenced by the remarkable range of subjects he covers: the Gypsy project, coverage of the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968, the loneliness of exile, man’s devastating impact on the landscape… Illustrated with hundreds of photographs, including numerous behind-the-scenes images, the book covers Koudelka’s many projects and his evolution as an artist.