JOSEF KOUDELKA: INVASION (RUS) war photography revealing small gestures

revealing small gestures

succeed in making past and present historical processes in Ukraine visible and to describe their psychological and social effects on people and landscapes

Photography was rarely the main issue

presents a selection of 88 images edited by the photographer Barney Kulok

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JOSEF KOUDELKA: INVASION (RUS) war photography revealing small gesturesABOUT: Includes Czech Version insert. In 1968, Josef Koudelka was a 30 year old acclaimed theater photographer who had never made pictures of a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks invaded the city of Prague, ending the short lived political liberalization in Czechoslovakia that came to be known as the Prague Spring. Koudelka had returned home the day before from photographing gypsies in Romania. In the midst