Josef Koudelka (born 1938)
The Black Triangle. The Foothills of the Ore Mountains, 1991-1993
(Vesmír, Prague, 1994, an edition of approximately 100 unnumbered copies) A portfolio of 34 panoramic black-and-white plates; together with title and publishing page, with texts by Vaclev Havel and Josef Vavrousek, and captions by Zdeněk Stáhlík, Igor Míchal, and Petr Pakosta in English, French, and Czech; contained in a cardboard folio case with Velcro fastening.
each 7 1/8 x 22 3/8 in. (18.1 x 56.8 cm.)
sheet 9 1/8 x 23 1/2 in. (23.2 x 59.7 cm.)
folio case 9 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. (24.1 x 62.2 cm.)
Footnotes:
Note
This portfolio was published in conjunction with the exhibition Black Triangle, mounted at the Prague Castle in 1994. Koudelka's panoramic images document the ecological destruction caused by coal mining in the Ore Mountain foothills, also known as the Black Triangle. In his introduction, Vaclav Havel boldly states that Koudelka's scathing images have 'taught us perhaps more than anything else that the world is made of an indefinitely intricate and mysterious tissue about which we know damn little and towards which we should behave humbly.'
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This portfolio of 34 photographic prints is in generally excellent condition. Only visible in raking light on a few of the prints are scattered streaks, scuffs, and small deposits of indeterminate nature. The sheets are ever so slightly bowed at the left and right edges.

The cardboard folio case is in generally excellent condition.