{"id":14546,"date":"2015-01-26T11:55:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T16:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=14546"},"modified":"2015-01-26T11:55:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T16:55:19","slug":"15-quotes-by-photographer-josef-koudelka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/14546\/15-quotes-by-photographer-josef-koudelka\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Quotes By Photographer Josef Koudelka"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nHere\u2019s a collection of my favorite quotes by Josef Koudelka<\/a>.
\n\u201cWhat matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.\u201d – Josef Koudelka
\n“I am not interested in repetition. I don’t want to reach the point from where I wouldn’t know how to go further. It’s good to set limits for oneself, but there comes a moment when we must destroy what we have constructed.” – Josef Koudelka
\n\u201cIf I am dissatisfied, it\u2019s simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.\u201d – Josef Koudelka
\n\u201cI have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not ‘photographing’, in order to keep the eye in practice.\u201d – Josef Koudelka
\n\u201cSometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.\u201d – Josef Koudelka
\n“When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: “What is this guy doing?” But I keep working with my contacts and with my prints, I look at them all the time. I believe that the result of this work stays in me and at the moment of photographing it comes out, without my thinking of it.” – Josef Koudelka
\n“I don’t pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.\u201d – Josef Koudelka
\n\u201cI photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do. I do not do editorial and I never do advertising. No, my freedom is something I do not give away easily.\u201d – Josef Koudelka
\n\u201cI don\u2019t like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.\u201d – Josef Koudelka
\n\u201cI never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.\u201d – Josef Koudelka
\n\u201cMy photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers\u2026 They say, \u2018We came to liberate you\u2026.\u2019 I say: \u2018Listen, I think it was quite different. I saw people being killed.\u2019 They say: No. We never\u2026 no shooting. No. No.\u2019 So I can show them my Prague 1968 photographs and say, \u2018Listen, these are my pictures. I was there.\u2019 And they have to believe me.\u201d – Josef Koudelka
\n\u201cThe changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to photograph what\u2019s left. I have always been drawn to what is ending, what will soon no longer exist.\u201d – Josef Koudelka
\n\u201cIt never seemed important to me that my photos be published. It\u2019s important that I take them. There were periods where I didn\u2019t have money, and I would imagine that someone would come to me and say: \u2018Here is money, you can go do your photography, but you must not show it.\u2019 I would have accepted right away. On the other hand, if someone had come to me saying: \u2018Here is money to do your photography, but after your death it must be destroyed,\u2019 I would have refused.\u201d – Josef Koudelka
\n\u201cWhen I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things. One of the things he said was, \u201cJosef, a photographer works on the subject, but the subject works on the photographer.\u201d – Josef Koudelka
\n\u201cI would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself.\u201d – Josef Koudelka
\nView 12 Great Photographs By Josef Koudelka.<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nExplore The Essential Collection Of Quotes By Photographers here.<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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