Koudelka

Born in 1938 in a tiny Moravian village, Josef Koudelka began making pictures as a teenager with a 6x6 Bakelite camera. While working as an aeronautical engineer in Prague and Bratislava in the 1960s, he started to photograph the theater in Prague, then the gypsies of Slovakia and Romania. In 1968, he recorded the invasion of Prague by the Warsaw Pact armies, and his work became internationally known, winning him the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal. Koudelka left Czechoslovakia in 1970, and was awarded asylum in England. He became a member of Magnum in 1974, but has refused most journalistic assignments: in constant movement, he prefers to wander Europe in search of pictures of a world that is rapidly disappearing. He has been the recipient of many major grants and awards, including the Grand Prix Cartier-Bresson in 1991. Josef Koudelka was born in Moravia in 1938. His work has won the Prix Nadar (1978), Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), Grand Prix Cartier-Bresson (1991), and Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (1992). Major exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography, New York; Hayward Gallery, London; Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Koudelka is a member of Magnum Photos and is currently based in Paris.Koudelka, Josef is the author of 'Koudelka ', published 2007 under ISBN 9781597110303 and ISBN 1597110302.