Between 26 January 13th February presents Hasselblad Center in his gallery's transition Collection of the Czech photographer Josef Koudelka's Gypsies, who in 1992 received the Hasselbladpreis. The exhibited photos belong to the first series, Koudelka shot of Roma in Slovakia and Romania.
Koudelka made these recordings in the 60s and came just days before the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in the back with them to Prague. The photographer wanted to show these pictures less the rites and the "special one" of the Roma population, but rather describe their close family and personality.
Josef Koudelka
photos in the gallery transition Hasselblad in Gothenburg express no sensation, but are intimate pictures where the subject is as such in the foreground. The pictures were exhibited in a time when Koudelka was hardly known as a photographer and he made all the shots for the Prague theater. Gypsies can therefore be described in a way, as his first feature.
As Josef Koudelka made his series on Rome before he became a professional photographer, these photos of his most intimate photos showing his romantic setting. Koudelka himself played the music of the Gypsies and said later that he started out as an inspiration from Roma to shoot and then could not stop.
Josef Koudelka photographed back from Romania, the Soviet invasion, a series of images that made him famous overnight. His photos of the Soviet invasion in 1970 then allows him to move to London, where he worked for the photo agency Magnum. Since 1987, the photographer lives in Paris, where in 1991 he first visited Prague again.
Copyright text and photos: Herbert Karlin
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