"The changes taking place in this part of……" — Josef Koudelka
"The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to photograph what's left. I have always been drawn to what is ending, what will soon no longer exist."
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Josef Koudelka
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17 Quotes by Josef Koudelka
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I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye…
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I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.
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I have never had any hero in my life or in photography. I just travel, I look and everything influences…
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I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want…
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What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go…
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I am not interested in repetition. I don't want to reach the point from where I wouldn't know how to…
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If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.
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Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I…
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When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is…
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I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.
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I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I…
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My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came…
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