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The Encyclopedia of Photography’s Art and History

"Gypsies", Josef Koudelka (1938)

Gypsies

Josef Koudelka (1938)

Romani life in Eastern and Western Europe across the 1960s and 1970s, through images of tradition, displacement, and resilience amid marginalization and cultural pressure.

With contributions from: Magnum Photos (image source); MoMA (image source); Penko Skumov (image research). Suggest an Edit

Gypsies

Josef Koudelka (1938)

Romani life in Eastern and Western Europe across the 1960s and 1970s, through images of tradition, displacement, and resilience amid marginalization and cultural pressure.

With contributions from: Magnum Photos (image source); MoMA (image source); Penko Skumov (image research). Suggest an Edit

Zehra, Czechoslovakia. 1967. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum Photos

Reconstruction of a homicide. In the foreground: a young gypsy suspected of being guilty. Jarabina, Czechoslovakia. 1963. ...

Velka Lomnica, Slovakia, Czechoslovakia. 1963. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum Photos

Bardejov. 1967. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum Photos

Roznava District. 1968. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum Photos

Untitled. 1962-68. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum Photos

Velka Lomnica. 1963. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum Photos

Sprisske Bystre. 1966. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum Photos

Romania. 1968. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum Photos

Michalovce, Czechoslovakia. 1966. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum Photos

Vinodol, Czechoslovakia. 1969. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum Photos

Festival of gypsy music. Straznice, Czechoslovakia. 1966. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum Photos

Jarabina, Slovakia, Czechoslovakia. 1963. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum Photos

Nove Zamky. 1967. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum Photos

Books

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Gypsies

Aperture, 1975

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Gypsies

Aperture, 2011

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Josef Koudelka: Nationality Doubtful

Art Institute of Chicago, 2014

upscaled cover image 9781597114738

Gypsies

Aperture, 2019

upscaled cover image 9781597114653

Josef Koudelka: Next

Aperture, 2023

upscaled cover image 9783959056304

Josef Koudelka - Ikonar: Archival Constellations

Spector Books, 2023

upscaled cover image 9788072153978

Josef Koudelka

Torst, 2011

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Josef Koudelka: Returning

KANT, 2018

upscaled cover image 9781597110303

Koudelka

Aperture, 2007

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Josef Koudelka

Thames & Hudson, 2007

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Josef Koudelka

Actes Sud, 2012

More by Josef Koudelka

Czechoslovakia, 1968. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum Photos

Josef Koudelka (1938)

Exile in black and white photographs of people and landscapes shaped by migration, statelessness, and political disruption in twentieth-century Europe.

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