Antonín Kratochvíl is a Czech photographer of international renown living in the USA. A World Press Photo award recipient.
A native of Lovosice who passed his youth in Prague (he left Czechoslovakia before the Russian invasion), he holds several major international awards including the Infinity Award and Photojournalist of the Year bestowed by the International Center of Photography in New York. American Photo magazine has ranked him among the most significant photographers in the USA.
Incognito is a collection of portraits for which Kratochvíl used his favourite black-and-white material and depicted in an expressionistic and subjective style famous people, stars and celebrities: those that are never forgotten – the immortal ones, whose eternity spans cables and satellites.
Kratochvíl presents to us celebrities, ever accompanied by colours and stylisation, in what can even seem a surreal light, creating a portrait that moves a famous (to the normal world) remote individual to the everyday world around us.
With his portrait of Willem Dafoe, Kratochvíl won the World Press Photo first prize in 1998. The collection contains photographs of famous faces such as: Liv Tyler, David Bowie, Jean Reno, Keanu Reeves, Richard Burton, Harvey Keitel, Bill Gates, Priscilla Presley and Johnny Depp.
S portrétem Wilema Dafoe získal Kratochvíl první cenu World Press Photo v roce 1998. Soubor obsahuje fotografie známých tváří jako: Liv Tyler, David Bowie, Jean Reno, Bill Gates, Priscilla Presley, Johny Deep, Gerge Cloony ad.