Publisher/Steidl

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"Roma" is a photobook by Josef Koudelka, one of the leading photographers of Magnum Photos from the Czech Republic. Koudelka took photographs to document the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, led by the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. As the Prague Spring reform movement came to an end and the country began to pursue normalization policies, publishing the photographs would have meant death, so he had an acquaintance secretly take them out of the country. The photographs eventually came into the hands of Elliott Erwitt, then president of Magnum Photos, and were released the following year in 1969 as a record of an anonymous Czech photographer, creating a legend that Koudelka won the Robert Capa Award while remaining anonymous. This book is Koudelka's masterpiece, a documentary of the lives of Roma (Gypsies) living in Eastern Europe. The first edition was published in 1975 under the name "Gitans La Fin du Voyage" (English version is "Gypsies"). This is a revised and expanded edition published by Steidl in 2011. The text is in German.