The outstanding work of Jaroslav Kucera

Wow! Quite excellent! I went through the Top 50 Gallery so far.

Thanks for sharing.
 
Interesting insight into his start in photography:

Gallery - Meetings, Moments, Solitude
"In 1969 I found myself in a communist jail, where I went after being involved in street fights against the Soviet occupation. It was then and there I finály deciced to become a photographer. I took photos on street, not thinking much about the future.My photos were spapshots of people I just met, but later I created small collections about people in Prague snack joints and night stress, or juvie boys.

It was a time I wanted to start my life as independent as I could be.

And my photographs were to help me.."
 
His work is great. The post-1989 street scenes look just like the Prague I remember from when I moved there. I knew his daughter Tereza a bit in the 1990s. His photos were largely unknown then, but I saw prints of lots of them.

Marty
 
Thank you for posting this link, Pan. I had never heard of Kucera, and his is a remarkable body of work!
What so comes through his work is his fearlessness, the mutual trust between him and his subjects, and his compassionate heart. Equipment? Possibly a Leica, or more probably a cranky FSU rangefinder, given the circumstances of his early career. And mostly irrelevant. Reminds me that I need to concentrate a lot less on gadgets, and a lot more on the compassionate heart.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom