
Josef Koudelka
Ruins
Hannibal Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 5. November 2026
Book
Hardback
196 pages
978-94-93531-04-8 (ISBN)
Description
Deutscher Text weiter unten. For more than twenty years, Koudelka has traveled through the Mediterranean, visiting places such as Italy, Libya, Greece, and Syria to photograph more than two hundred archaeological sites. Stark and mesmerizing panoramic photographs take the viewer to Delphi, Pompeii, Petra, Carthage, and other ancient locations, including sites now greatly altered or destroyed due to recent conflict. Ruins is a monument of architectural and cultural history, as well as civilizations long past. Published on the occasion of an autumn exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Seit mehr als zwanzig Jahren bereist Koudelka den Mittelmeerraum und besucht Orte wie Italien, Libyen, Griechenland und Syrien, um mehr als zweihundert archäologische Stätten zu fotografieren. Eindrucksvolle und faszinierende Panoramaaufnahmen entführen den Betrachter nach Delphi, Pompeji, Petra, Karthago und an andere antike Stätten, darunter auch Orte, die durch jüngste Konflikte stark verändert oder zerstört wurden. "Ruins" ist ein Denkmal der Architektur- und Kulturgeschichte sowie längst vergangener Zivilisationen. Aus Anlass der Herbstausstellung im Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York erschienen.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Belgium
Illustrations
black & white
Dimensions
Height: 430 mm
Width: 305 mm
Weight
1367 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-93531-04-8 (9789493531048)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Sean Hemingway is an archaeologist and a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has a Ph.D. in classical art and archaeology from Bryn Mawr College and was a Fulbright Scholar to Greece.The author of numerous writings about ancient Greek art, he has also edited several books by his grandfather, Ernest Hemingway. Philosopher and essayist, Gilles A. Tiberghien (b. 1953) teaches aesthetics at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He is a member of the editorial board of Cahiers du Musee d'Art Moderne and the author of numerous pioneering works on Land Art, landscape, and nature.
Content
Published on the occasion of an autumn exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.