This collection of pictures by an acknowledged master of photography, now updated to include 11 new images, forms a document of the spiritual and physical state of exile. The sense of private mystery that fills these photographs - mostly taken during Koudelka's many years of wandering through Europe and the United States since leaving his native Czechoslovakia - speaks of passion and reserve, of his "rage to see". The images here interrogate and penetrate, and reflect the nature of alienation. The accompanying essay by Robert Delpire invokes the soul of man in search of a spiritual homeland. Josef Koudelka's photographs of the Warsaw Pact armies' intervention in Prague won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1969. In 1970 he left Czechoslovakia for asylum in England and became a member of Magnum Photos.

阮义忠先生现生活在我国台湾，他在摄影理论研究方面，有着相当深的造诣，本身又是台湾著名摄影家之一，本书参考数十本国外摄影名家专集，以亲切活泼的笔调介绍桑德、布列松、卡帕、阿勃丝、寇德卡……等二十位杰出摄影家的生平经历与影像风格，生动的妙喻和精辟的引文穿插其间，倍增可读性。图版之编选，采画册欣赏页形式，印刷方面力求忠于原作在色调层次与质感的要求，以利读者欣赏。

Previously published in 1959, Frank's most famous and influential photography book contained a series of deceptively simple photos that he took on a trip through America in 1955 and 1956. These pictures of everyday people still speak to us today, 40 years and several generations later.