{"id":2007,"date":"2013-04-03T11:33:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T11:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2013-03-30T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T11:35:18","slug":"koudelka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=2007","title":{"rendered":"Kim on Koudelka"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I think that Eric Kim in his blog post 10 Lessons Josef Koudelka Has Taught Me About Street Photography<\/a> considerably overstates the obvious, most of it is good advice, and what shines through is his enthusiasm about photography and Koudelka’s work.<\/p>\n

Although I’m also a fan of Koudelka<\/em>, and have several of his books, including Gypsies<\/em> and Chaos<\/em> which I think are perhaps his most important works, I think Kim goes rather over the top about him – as he also does in his features on Lee Friedlander<\/em> and Daido Moriyama<\/em> among others. But there are some nice links to a couple of videos and his Magnum page, as well as to his books.<\/p>\n

Incidentally I paid \u00a314.50 for my copy of his Gypsies<\/em>, the 1975 UK edition which I find is now offered on-line at over \u00a3200. The more recent version had more images and is better printed and available second-hand for around $50. Photographic books can be a decent investment, though mine tend to become rather worn, which cuts their value. But many others I bought are probably worth less than I paid for them.<\/p>\n

Although it’s nice to be able to hold a book and leaf through it, I think you can learn just as much from Koudelka’s work on line. There are photo books that really work well as books and are not just collections of images, where the sequence and the ability to look back and forward really matter, or where the print quality of the images is vital, but I don’t think this is so with Koudelka’s work. In general I think it works as well on screen – for example at Magnum<\/a> – as it does in print or even in actual photographic prints, perhaps with the exception of his panoramic work, which really needs to be seen on a greater scale. Some in the Chaos<\/em> book are reproduced as 22×9 inch double page spreads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I think that Eric Kim in his blog post 10 Lessons Josef Koudelka Has Taught Me About Street Photography considerably overstates the obvious, most of it is good advice, and what shines through is his enthusiasm about photography and Koudelka’s work. Although I’m also a fan of Koudelka, and have several of his books, … Continue reading Kim on Koudelka<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}