Paul Ickovic: Photographs

140 pages with sixty-one plates
Published by Okapi Editions, New York, 2021
One thousand copies, printed in tritone by Trifolio, Verona
Edited by Natalija Polenec, designed with Jana Ošlaj in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Texts by Dominique Versavel of La Bibliothèque nationale de France
and Marianne Le Galliard. Poem by Naila Moreira.

Printed as a companion to the exhibition En Transit: Photographs of Paul Ickovic at La Bibliothèque nationale de France, 19 May - 22 August 2021

Paul Ickovic was born in 1944 in Kettering, England to Czech parents. During his childhood he lived in South America, Western Europe and Canada. In 1957, his family settled in New York City. A self-taught photographer, he began making images in 1962, and later came under the tutelage of Louis Faurer who taught him that the path of excellence in photography was through a high degree of criticism and ruthless self editing. In 1970, his photographs were first exhibited at Goddard College in Vermont, and in 1974 he had his first major exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Ickovic’s books include In Transit, Safe Conduct (foreward by Cornell Capa, essay by Vaclav Havel) and Kafka’s Grave and Other Stories, a collaboration with Pulitzer prize winning author David Mamet. Kafka’s Grave was printed by The Stinehour Press, Meriden, Connecticut, and was among the AIGA’s Fifty Books of the Year, 1986. He has travelled and photographed throughout the world, in countries which include France, Denmark, Spain, England, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Italy, Indonesia, India, Nepal, Argentina, Cuba and Egypt.
Paul Ickovic’s photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; International Center of Photography, New York; National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic; the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the New York Public Library.
He lives in Prague, Czech Republic. ~ Robert Klein

Lear more about Paul Ickovic on his website

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