Connie Wanek

Homage Photos

I took pictures based on my photographer. I tried taking them in some way that Josef Koudelka did.  The photos are simple and in some of them there is something interesting around them.

Helvetica

Helvetica was made around the 1960's. Helvetica was used a lot in many different things and places. People would fix letters on to the same area that other words are. IT made me want to use it more now, whenever I type on the computer instead of using other different fonts.

One Road Homage

Josef Koudelka takes many photos of people doing different things. Also tries to take them while they aren't looking at dirrectly at him.

My thing was to do the same thing as Josef Koudelka would do. I took a picture of a classmate walking towards me and another friend behind him. I'm taking photos while there is something interesting around them. The photo has to have something that will bring your eyes to it imidiately and that's what I'm doing and taking ideas from Josef Koudelka.

Josef Koudelka

Josef Koudelka was born in a small village of Moravia. He got his degree at a Technical University in Prague as a aeronautical engineer in Bratislava and Prague from 1961-1967. Josef Koudelka started to take pictures of his family and things that were happening around him. Koudelka began photographing theater productions on a old Rolleiflex Camera. In 1968 Koudelka's project started to extend to the gypsy community in Rumania. Josef Koudelka had once said he didn't know why he started to photograph the gypsies, but apparently he does know that he could not stop.

In 1975 Josef Koudelka had published one of his major projects such as Gypsies and in 1988 he prublished the Exiles. Every work he was doing was getting support by Anna Farova. Koudelka's ability is to capture the spirit of humans and dark landscaping.

History of Photography

Photographers started in the 19th century as painters. Photographs were an imitation of painting, that showed artistic paintings. Through out the time photographs had finally been caught up with sharp and up to date. Life Magazine showed people about the outdoors, it would let them know what was going on around the world. In the 1900 the Kodak Company had a hand held camera called Brownie. Photographers would now take pictures of birthdays and family events.