Key facts
- Born
- ( 1938-01-10 ) 10 January 1938 (age 88) , Boskovice , Czechoslovakia
- Citizenship
- Czech, French
- Occupation
- Photographer
- Known for
- Street photography
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Josef
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Czechoslovakia
- Place of birth
- Boskovice
- Occupation
- photojournalist
- Educated at
- Academy of Performing Arts
- Languages spoken
- Czech
- Image
- Josef Koudelka.jpg
- Work location
- Paris
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- member of
- Academy of Arts, Berlin
- Commons category
- Josef Koudelka
- date of birth
- 1938-01-10
- name in native language
- Josef Koudelka
- has works in the collection
- J. Paul Getty Museum
- floruit
- 2009-01-01
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Works in European collections
5 objects attributed to Josef Koudelka, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Josef Koudelka (born 10 January 1938) is a Czech-French photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos 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). 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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Josef Koudelka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.