Dunkerque - Digue
A gelatin silver print by Czech photographer Josef Koudelka capturing the seawall (digue) at Dunkerque, France. The work exemplifies Koudelka's documentary photography approach.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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Photographs
April 4, 2023
Artists in conversation
Paul Strand
American · b. 1890
Strand's black and white gelatin silver prints of coastal architecture and landscapes share Koudelka's rigorous documentary sensibility and precise tonal depth, particularly in his studies of stone structures and shoreline environments in France and Europe.
Raymond Depardon
French · b. 1942
Depardon works extensively in black and white documentary photography across French landscapes and urban edges, employing the same stark gelatin silver print aesthetic and quiet observational approach to architecture and public spaces that Koudelka brings to Dunkerque.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Japanese · b. 1948
Sugimoto's long exposure seascape and coastal structure photographs in gelatin silver print share Koudelka's meditative engagement with shorelines and man made boundaries where land meets water, rendered with exceptional tonal range and a contemplative documentary stillness.
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