{"product_id":"koudelka-ikonar-archival-constellations-josef-koudelka-2022","title":"Koudelka \/ Ikonar: Archival Constellations — Josef Koudelka (2022)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"135\" data-end=\"567\"\u003ePublished to accompany the exhibition at Photo Elysée, \u003cem data-start=\"320\" data-end=\"339\"\u003eKoudelka \/ Ikonar\u003c\/em\u003e functions as both retrospective and self-portrait, structured not by chronology but by constellation — fragments of contact sheets, annotated film edges, and the residue of a life spent in exile, always in search of the image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"569\" data-end=\"1121\"\u003eThe title “Ikonar” is no empty epithet: it refers to the name used for Koudelka by his Roma friends — a gesture of recognition that aligns him with myth, rather than authorship. Here, the book becomes a visual laboratory, offering an unprecedented dive into the physical archive: blown-up negatives, worn jackets, workspaces, filing cabinets, and endless filmstrips annotated in Koudelka’s own hand. Images are both revealed and withheld, framed by editing marks, red grease-pencil borders, and the margins of contact sheets where decisions were made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1123\" data-end=\"1656\"\u003eDesigned in collaboration with the artist, the book resists monumentality in favour of intimacy. It is part studio notebook, part elegy to analog process. The cover alone — a filmstrip over a dark coat suspended like an apparition — captures the psychic terrain of the work: haunted, itinerant, exacting. As with Moriyama or Anders Petersen, the book holds not just photographs but the obsessive grammar of looking, collecting, and withholding. A study in what it means to build a vision out of fragments, and to live in its archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1658\" data-end=\"2006\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003cbr data-start=\"1673\" data-end=\"1676\"\u003eTitle: Koudelka \/ Ikonar: Archival Constellations\u003cbr data-start=\"1725\" data-end=\"1728\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Josef Koudelka\u003cbr data-start=\"1759\" data-end=\"1762\"\u003eDate: 2022\u003cbr data-start=\"1772\" data-end=\"1775\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset\u003cbr data-start=\"1810\" data-end=\"1813\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover\u003cbr data-start=\"1842\" data-end=\"1845\"\u003eDimensions (cm): approx. 21 × 28\u003cbr data-start=\"1877\" data-end=\"1880\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr data-start=\"1897\" data-end=\"1900\"\u003ePages: 262\u003cbr data-start=\"1910\" data-end=\"1913\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Photo Elysée \u0026amp; Spector Books\u003cbr data-start=\"1961\" data-end=\"1964\"\u003eISBN: 978-3-95905-630-4\u003cbr data-start=\"1987\" data-end=\"1990\"\u003eCondition: NEW\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52657327341906,"sku":null,"price":55.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_copy_f1e5b56e-db52-48b8-b175-0b9e46b2b947.jpg?v=1770540264","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/koudelka-ikonar-archival-constellations-josef-koudelka-2022","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}