James Nachtwey, William Klein & Josef Koudelka - Three rare Hasselblad Center booklets - 1992-1993

1. KLEIN:
PU: Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden, First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated wrappers, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and text (in English) by William Klein. Essay (in Swedish) by Rune Hassner. Includes a filmography and bibliography (in English). Unpaginated (24 pp.), with 13 black-and-white plates. 9-1/2 x 8-3/4 inches. Published on the occasion of a 1990 exhibition at the Hasselblad Center, Göteborg. New. A Mint copy. This exhibition catalogue includes reproductions of many of Klein's most famous photographs, together with contact sheets and a selection of Klein's paintings, film posters and book cover designs.

2. Kodelka:

[PU: Göteborg Hasselblad Center], (24 x 21,8 cm) First edition. Pictorial wraps. Scarce. Sewn as issued, pictorial wrappers. As new. Göteborg, Hasselblad center, 1992. Large 8vo. [32] sid. Illustrated throughout with attractively printed full-page black & white photographs. With biographical and bibliographical information. Josef Koudelka is a Czech-French photographer. He was awarded the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography in 1992. Koudelka's early work significantly shaped his later photography, and its emphasis on social and cultural rituals as well as death. He soon moved on to a more personal, in depth photographic study of the Gypsies of Slovakia, and later Romania. This work was exhibited in Prague in 1967.

3. James Nachtwey:

PU: Göteborg Hasselblad Center], (24 x 21,8 cm) First edition. Pictorial wraps. Scarce. Sewn as issued, pictorial wrappers. As new. Göteborg, Hasselblad center, 1992. Large 8vo. [32] sid


This photobook was created as a companion for the 7th November 1992 to 10th January 1993 retrospective exhibition of James Nachtwey’s photography for the first time in Europe at the Hasselblad Centre in Göteborg, Sweden. This book collects Nachtwey’s documentary photography from the 1980s and 1990s taken in war-torn places such as Guatemala, Northern Ireland, Poland, Romania, Russia, Palestine and Nicaragua. Nachtwey’s photographs focus on the trauma and damage inflicted on the lives of civilians within war-zones.
About the Artist

James Nachtwey (born 1948) is an American photojournalist who has been documenting war-torn areas for decades. An associate of the Bang-Bang Club, Nachtwey has worked for both newspapers such as Time as well as photo-agencies.

About the Publisher
The Hasselblad Foundation is a unique platform for photography in the Nordic region. The photographic research and exhibitions complement each other and are closely tied through publications as well as frequent symposiums. The Hasselblad Center is located in the Göteborg Museum of Art.
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