Josef Koudelka
Olympia, Greece

Olympia, Greece

© Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos, courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Olympia, Greece
Olympia, Greece
CultureCzech
Titles
  • Olympia, Greece
  • from the series Archaeology
Date2003, printed 2014
Place depictedOlympia, Greece
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 32 7/8 × 100 in. (83.5 × 254 cm)
Sheet: 36 3/4 × 103 3/4 in. (93.3 × 263.5 cm)
Mount: 36 3/4 × 103 3/4 in. (93.3 × 263.5 cm)
Frame: 43 × 110 × 2 in. (109.2 × 279.4 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Museum Collectors in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker on the occasion of her retirement
Object number2015.203
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Since the mid-1990s, Josef Koudelka has photographed ancient ruins at 200 Greek and Roman sites in 19 countries encircling the Mediterranean. This visually powerful image of fallen columns at the Temple of Zeus at Olympia prompts thoughts of the rise and fall of great civilizations, a theme that resonates with this Czech photographer who grew up in a small, proud country with bursts of independence shadowed by periods of Habsburg, Nazi, and Communist rule.





 






ProvenanceArtist; Pace MacGill Gallery, New York City; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 2015
Exhibition HistoryJosef Koudelka: 12 Panoramas, 1988–2012, Pace/McGill Gallery, 508 W. 25th Street, New York, January 16–February 14, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
signed in ink on label affixed verso on mount

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