Josef Koudelka: Next: A Visual Biography of Josef Koudelka

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The first ever biography of this iconoclastic Czech photographer

Grounded in hundreds of hours of interviews with Koudelka and his circle conducted over six years

A must-have for history, biography, and photography buffs alike

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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 Universitys 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.