Tag: Josef Koudelka
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Josef Koudelka Could Locate Beauty Anywhere | The New Yorker
Josef Koudelka Could Locate Beauty Anywhere His latest show is titled “Industry,” a word that defines not just the subject matter but the artist. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/josef-koudelka-could-locate-beauty-anywhere “I’m quite different from other people,” the legendary eighty-six-year-old Czech photographer Josef Koudelka was saying the other day at the Pace Gallery in Chelsea, where his…
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The Inside Story of Josef Koudelka’s Groundbreaking Career
The Inside Story of Josef Koudelka’s Groundbreaking Career Melissa Harris speaks about working with the renowned photographer on his visual biography, “Josef Koudelka: Next.” via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/the-inside-story-of-josef-koudelkas-groundbreaking-career/ Josef loves a challenge, a visual challenge. He had not really worked in this way before, where there had to be a clear relationship between text and image.…
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Josef Koudelka: Exiles and Panoramas 1968 – 2012 – The Leica camera Blog
Link: The current exhibition at the Ernst Leitz Museum in Wetzlar is presenting works by the Czech photographer Josef Koudelka.
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Modern Sublime: The World of Josef Koudelka"
Link: “I try to be a photographer. I cannot talk. I am not interested in talking. If I have anything to say, it may be found in my images. I am not interested in talking about things, explaining about the whys and the hows. I do not mind showing my images, but not so much…
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Josef Koudelka, Twelve Panoramas, at PACE McGill Gallery – The Eye of Photography
Link: “There is something somber and disquieting about Koudelka’s panoramas,” says Julian Cox, head curator of the Museum of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
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Extraordinary New Book Unveils the Untold Stories of the World’s Greatest Photojournalists – Feature Shoot
Extraordinary New Book Unveils the Untold Stories of the World’s Greatest Photojournalists The duty of a photojournalist, according to many, is to remain detached in a moment of crisis, to compartmentalize scenes of violence and war from the goings on of everyday life. As suggested by Italian journalist Mario Calabresi in his extraordinary book Eyes…
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Revisiting Josef Koudelka’s Photographs of Europe’s Roma Communities
Revisiting Josef Koudelka’s Photographs of Europe’s Roma Communities In a new edition, Aperture revisits one of the seminal photobooks of the twentieth century. via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/aperture-josef-koudelka-gypsies/ Koudelka’s foundational body of work offers an intimate glimpse into Europe’s Roma communities.
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An unpublished portrait of Josef Koudelka this evening on ARTE – The Eye of Photography
An unpublished portrait of Josef Koudelka this evening on ARTE From one spectacular location to another, the director Gilad Baram, then assistant to Josef Koudelka (who allowed himself to be filmed for the first time), followed him on his journey in the Holy Land
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Josef Koudelka Documentary Film Offers Intimate Portrait of the Famed Photographer | PDNPulse
Josef Koudelka Documentary Film Offers Intimate Portrait of the Famed Photographer | PDNPulse A new documentary film gives viewers an intimate, insider’s look at Koudelka’s photographic process as he works in Israel and the West Bank. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/07/josef-koudelka-documentary-film-offers-intimate-portrait-famed-photographer.html Koudelka Shooting Holy Land, a new documentary film making its U.S. debut today at the San…
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Shooting Holy Land : A new documentary on photographer Josef Koudelka – The Eye of Photography
Shooting Holy Land : A new documentary on photographer Josef Koudelka Koudelka: Shooting Holy Land, the debut documentary film of Israeli-born photographer Gilad Baram, offers a unique and intimate look into the creative process of world-renowned Czech photographer Josef Koudelka.
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Brooklyn : This place, Josef Koudelka – The Eye of Photography
Brooklyn : This place, Josef Koudelka Since 1986, when I began to work on the landscapes of France for the Mission DATAR with a panoramic camera, I’ve tried to show how contemporary man influences the landscape. But I’d never seen anything similar to this. From my point of view, I could not find a subject…
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12 Photographers Turn Their Lens on Israel in ‘This Place’ – Feature Shoot
12 Photographers Turn Their Lens on Israel in ‘This Place’ – Feature Shoot For a land so deeply entrenched with history and conflict, Israel is not an easy subject to approach in a photography project, especially from a single standpoint. Born out of an idea by Frédéric Brenner, a French photographer who has long explored…
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Portrait of Josef Koudelka by Christian Caujolle – The Eye of Photography
Portrait of Josef Koudelka by Christian Caujolle I’ve never been interested in photojournalism that attempts to tell a story through several pictures. I’ve always sought out pictures that tell a story in themselves, letting each viewer see a story that suits them. For me, a good photograph is one that tells a different story to…
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Getty Museum Mounts First Major U.S. Retrospective of Josef Koudelka in Over 25 Years | American Photo
Getty Museum Mounts First Major U.S. Retrospective of Josef Koudelka in Over 25 Years For nearly five decades, the Czech-born photographer Josef Koudelka has been traveling nonstop. “I never stay in one country more than three months,” he told Lens blog in a rare interview. “Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I…
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Josef Koudelka: the man who risked his life to photograph the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
Josef Koudelka: the man who risked his life to photograph the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia – in pictures After years of taking striking photos of Gypsies, the Czech photographer stood before the tanks during the 1968 invasion. He smuggled out his images, they went round the world and he fled to Britain. Here are his…
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The Online Photographer: Josef Koudelka at the Art Institute of Chicago
Josef Koudelka at the Art Institute of Chicago Amanda Maddox of the Getty Museum, Josef Koudelka, and Matt Witkovsky of the AIC on the dais. Words and photos by Dan Gorman I attended the opening of the Josef Koudelka exhibit at AIC last week. I walked through the… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2014/06/josef-koudelka-at-the-art-institute-of-chicago.html Koudelka had…
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Josef Koudelka: A Restless Eye
Link: Josef Koudelka: A Restless Eye – NYTimes.com I was using this Fuji panoramic — but the problem was everyone stopped developing the film. You can’t get 220 film anymore and you needed to carry about 35 kilograms extra. I went to Leica and they did one camera for me that was digital panoramic, which…
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Josef Koudelka: Formed by the World
Josef Koudelka: Formed by the World Josef Koudelka has traveled the globe, photographing on his own terms. But as he puts the world in his viewfinder, the world shapes him in return. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/josef-koudelka-formed-by-the-world/?_r=0 I don’t like picture stories. In fact I think picture stories destroyed all photography. You needed to have a…
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Look3: Josef Koudelka on the Measure of a Photographer, Courage, and Controlling Your Own Destiny
Look3: Josef Koudelka on the Measure of a Photographer, Courage, and Controlling Your Own Destiny | PDNPulse Legendary photographer Josef Koudelka packed the house at the Paramount Theater in downtown Charlottesville during the Look3 Festival of the Photograph over the weekend, and the audience greeted him with a standing ovation after master of ceremonies, phot…
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Josef Koudelka’s Gypsies, Revisited
I know of few photographers knowledgeable of the work of Josef Koudelka who do not look upon his lif