FAFEK, Emil / Emilem - Emil Fafek. 40 let fotoreportérem / 40 Jahre Fotoreporter

Background information

Emil FAFEK is a photographer, unjustly little known in Germany, who worked as a sports and photo reporter in Germany until his escape from the Nazis (1944). In Prague, he documented the Prague Uprising in May 1945. Like Josef KOUDELKA, Emil FAFEK also documented the occupation of the Czech Republic in August 1968, but these pictures were not published until November 1989. In addition, Emil FAFEK was also a photojournalist for sports: in 1964 he won the third World Press Photo Award in the category 'Sports Photography'.

Content

This photo volume, 'Emil Fafek. 40 let fotoreportérem' (40 years of photojournalism) offers a comprehensive selection of images of the Czech photojournalist FAFEK from a 40-year career since the late 1930s. Starting with footage from World War II and liberation, through reconstruction and Czech politics from the 1950s to the 1980s. Some pictures with typical Eastern European motifs, portraits of Louis Armstrong, Karel Gott, Anatolij Karpov as well as Emil Zatopek. Shots from August 1968 have not (yet) been published in this volume, rather shots from everyday life: work, culture, sports.

About the Czech photographer, Emil FAFEK (1922-1997)

Photo books by and about the work of Emil FAFEK