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Still stateless, he continues to travel throughout Europe.įirst major exhibition, conceived by Robert Delpire and organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain, is held at Hayward Gallery, London. Robert Delpire publishes, in Paris, Koudelka’s photographs of Roma as Gitans: La fin du voyage (1977) Aperture publishes the American edition under the title Gypsies.Īwarded the Prix Nadar by the Gens d’Images, Paris, for Gitans: La fin du voyage. Josef Koudelka, a solo exhibition organized by John Szarkowski, opens at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Meets Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Delpire, who become his close friends. The UK grants him asylum and he lives there through 1979.īegins traveling and photographing Roma, religious and popular festivals, and daily life in various European countries.Įlliott Erwitt proposes that Koudelka join Magnum Photos he becomes an associate member. Does not return after expiration of the visa becomes stateless. Leaves Czechoslovakia on a three-month exit visa to photograph Roma in the West. Elliott Erwitt, then President of Magnum Photos, makes a short film of animated stills with these images for CBS News, maintaining Koudelka’s anonymity. The images won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club. P.’ (Prague Photographer) to avoid reprisals against Koudelka and his family a photo essay ‘by an anonymous Czech photographer’ is published in major international magazines. The photographers’ cooperative Magnum Photos distributes the photographs while Koudelka is still in the UK, attributing them to ‘P. His photographs of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia the previous year are secreted over the border and sent to the United States. In mid-July, he begins his second visit to the UK, where he remains for at least three months. Makes his first visit to England in April when the Divadlo za branou theatre group asks Koudelka to accompany them to London and exhibit his theatre photographs in the foyer of the Aldwych Theatre. Throughout this tumultuous period, Koudelka photographs the confrontations between Czechoslovaks and Soviets wherever they occur, as well as daily life in the streets. Returns to Prague the day before Warsaw Pact troops invade the city, ending the short-lived political freedom in Czechoslovakia that came to be known as the Prague Spring. Travels to Romania with sociologist Milena Hübschmannová to photograph Roma. His photographs of Roma are shown for the first time in the exhibition Cikáni, 1961–1966, at Divadlo za branou, Prague. Receives the Union of Czechoslovak Artists’ annual award for the innovative quality of his theatrical photographs. Leaves his engineering job and devotes himself full-time to photography. Publishes a book titled Král Ubu: Rozbor inscenace Divadla Na zábradlí v Praze, on the production of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi at the Divadlo Na zábradlí (Theatre on the Balustrade). Meets Markéta Luskačová, a cultural sociology student, who is beginning to photograph religious festivals in Slovakia.Īt the invitation of Otomar Krejča, director of the Divadlo za branou (Theatre beyond the gate), Prague, he begins to photograph performances there.īecomes a member of the Union of Czechoslovak Artists. Works as an aeronautical engineer in Prague and Bratislava.Ĭontributes to the magazine Divadlo (Theatre) as a freelance photographer. Travels abroad for the first time, to Italy, as a musician in a folk music and dance group.īegins to photograph the Roma of Czechoslovakia. Meets the photographer and critic Jiří Jeníček, who encourages him to exhibit his work at the Semafor Theatre in Prague.Īt the opening of the Semafor exhibition, he meets art critic Anna Fárová, a major figure in Czechoslovak photography, with whom he collaborates until he leaves the country in 1970. Studies engineering at the Czech Technical University, Prague. Introduced to photography by a friend of his father, he begins to take pictures of family and friends using a Bakelite camera. Josef Koudelka is born January 10 in Moravia, Czechoslovakia.