to 23 Nov - The world through Koudelka's eyes at Benaki Museum

A selection of photos by Josef Koudelka which reveals the world through the artist´s eyes is being presented at the Benaki Museum on Peiraios street from September 18 to November 23. The exhibition covers all the stages and themes than have ran through Koudelka’s work during his forty years-career. Josef Koudelka, born in Moravia, made his first photographs while a student in the 1950s. About the same time that he started his career as an aeronautical engineer in 1961 he also began photographing Gypsies in Czechoslovakia and theater in Prague. He turned full-time to photography in 1967. The following year, Koudelka photographed the Soviet invasion of Prague, publishing his photographs under the initials P. P. (Prague Photographer) for fear of reprisal to him and his family. In 1969, he was anonymously awarded the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal for those photographs.

Koudelka left Czechoslovakia for political asylum in 1970 and shortly thereafter joined Magnum Photos. In 1975, he brought out his first book Gypsies, and in 1988, Exiles. Since 1986, he has worked with a panoramic camera and issued a compilation of these photographs in his book Chaos in 1999. Koudelka has had more than a dozen books of his work published, including most recently in 2006 the retrospective volume Koudelka.

He has won significant awards such as the Prix Nadar (1978), a Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), a Grand Prix Cartier-Bresson (1991), and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (1992). Significant exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography, New York; the Hayward Gallery, London; the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam; and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Where
Benaki Museum- Pireos st. Annexe
http://www.benaki.gr/
138, Pireos st. & Andronikou St., 11854 Athens
tel:+30-210- 345 3111
fax:+30-210 345 3743
benaki@benaki.gr

When
18/09/2008 - 23/11/2008
We-Th-Su: 10:00-18:00
Fr& Sa: 10:00-22:00
Mo& Τu: closed

How much

€ 5,00 – 4,00 – 2,00
50% off for seniors and an adult accompanying a child

Free admission for: disabled persons and an escort, students and younger than 18, ICOM members and Friends of the Benaki Museum, academics and teachers, archaeologists, conservators, journalists, families with three or more children, Greek armed forces personnel, employees of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the Archaeological Receipts Fund, guides, members of the Chamber of Fine Arts


Contact
T. +30-210-3453111
F. +30-210-3453743
e-mail: benaki@benaki.gr

Organizers
Apeiron Photos


Apeiron Photos
http://www.apeiron.gr/
7A Paleologou St., 15342 Aghia Paraskevi
tel:+30-210-6007925, 6009540-2
fax:+30-210-6007924, 6016681
ekaltsa@apeiron.gr

Benaki Museum
http://www.benaki.gr/
1, Koumbari str & Vassilissis Sofias Ave., 10674 Athens
tel:+30-210-3671000
fax:+30-210-3671063
benaki@benaki.gr