the–elusive–muse:In 1968, when Czechoslovakia is invaded by Soviet soldiers, Josef Koudelka decide
the–elusive–muse: In 1968, when Czechoslovakia is invaded by Soviet soldiers, Josef Koudelka decides to observe and photograph the young people eager to be free: ‘Photographs are like words: you can express insults as much as poetry with them, following the way you will put them in relation.’ Printed anonymously, the images have a great impact on photojournalism while the Czech photographer decides to leave his native country in 1970 to portray gypsies, from Slovakia to the south of France. When he stops in Paris, the Magnum agency suggests he shouldn’t return to Prague where the regime would easily unmask the mysterious protesting photographer. Josef Koudelka thus begins an exile that would only end in 1990, a painful existence that will nourish his intense and graphic depictions of the world: ‘I think that the best portrait of a photographer are his photographs.’ #Compilation -- source link