{"id":124685,"date":"2019-12-24T14:09:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T13:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/24\/barriers-barbed-wire-and-borders-in-the-head-josef-koudelkas-holy-land\/"},"modified":"2019-12-24T14:09:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T13:09:03","slug":"barriers-barbed-wire-and-borders-in-the-head-josef-koudelkas-holy-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=124685","title":{"rendered":"Barriers, barbed wire and borders in the head: Josef Koudelka&#039;s Holy Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Magnum photographer grew up behind the iron curtain. As a documentary charts his journey where Israel and Palestine meet, Koudelka talks about challenging official narratives \u2013 and himself There\u2019s a surreal moment near the start of Koudelka Shooting Holy Land, a documentary about the acclaimed photographer Josef Koudelka. He has pointed his lens at one of the concrete barriers that separate Israel and Palestine but has been stopped by an official and a heavily armed soldier. His local assistant, Gilad Baram, is trying to smooth things over. \u201cIt might result in a book,\u201d Baram tells the soldier. \u201cHe is a one of the most renowned photographers worldwide. He is a photographer with an agency called Magnum.\u201dSuddenly the atmosphere changes. \u201cMagnum? Ah, I know it,\u201d says the soldier, his stern face breaking into a smile. A short discussion later, a friendly handshake and all is well. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2019\/dec\/24\/magnum-photographer-josef-koudelka-holy-land-israel-palestine-documentary\" target=\"_blank\">Barriers, barbed wire and borders in the head: Josef Koudelka&#039;s Holy Land<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Magnum photographer grew up behind the iron curtain. As a documentary charts his journey where Israel and Palestine meet, Koudelka talks about challenging official narratives \u2013 and himself There\u2019s a surreal moment near the start of Koudelka Shooting Holy Land, a documentary about the acclaimed photographer Josef Koudelka. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}