Josef Koudelka was Czech photographer born in 1938 in Boskovice, Czechoslovakia. He started photographing his family and the surroundings with Bakelite camera. He finished his engineering and worked as aeronautical engineer. Later, he began taking commission work from theater magazines. In 1967, he decided full-time work as a photographer. He…
As a young man, renowned Magnum photographer Josef Koudelka risked his life and his freedom to capture daring images of the Soviet-led invasion of Prague in 1968. In this video, he discusses these and many other gripping photographs from “Josef Koudelka: Nationality Doubtful”, his first U.S. retrospective since 1988. Through…
The world’s greatest photographers reveal the secrets behind their images. A collection of films that uncover the artistic processes of the greatest contemporary photographers from an original perspective. Using images (contact prints, proofs, prints, or slides) with commentary by the artists themselves, the viewer is thrust into the secret universe…