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Czech–French photographer (born 1938)

Josef Koudelka (born 10 January 1938) is a Czech-French photographer.

He is a member of Magnum Photos^[1] and has won awards such as the Prix Nadar (1978), a Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), a Grand Prix Henri Cartier-Bresson (1991), and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (1992).

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Josef Koudelka began his career as an aeronautical engineer in Prague and Bratislava, where he obtained a Rolleiflex camera and began photographing stage.

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Exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography, New York; the Hayward Gallery, London; the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Biography

Koudelka was born in 1938 in the small Moravian town of Boskovice, Czechoslovakia.^[2] He began photographing his family and the surroundings with a 6×6 Bakelite camera.

He studied at the Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT) in 1956, receiving a degree in engineering in 1961.^[2] He staged his first photographic exhibition the same year. Later he work