![]() The pattern and texture of his pictures form the silent equivalent of an epic drama. ![]() They seem instead to aim at a visual distillation of a pattern of human values: a pattern that involves theater, large gestures, brave style, precious camaraderie, and bitter loneliness. He has done this not because he was asked to, or because he thought that the world would be grateful, but because he has found the subject inexhaustibly fascinating, and perhaps also because Romani seem an endangered species, unlikely to survive much longer in Eastern Europe or elsewhere.Īlthough many of Koudelka's pictures contain information concerning the specific daily details of Romani life, such anthropological data does not seem their real point. ![]() Josef Koudelka has spent as much as possible of his life as a photographer making pictures of the Romani (Gypsies) of Eastern Europe.
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