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Josef Koudelka, 1968, Prague

Soviet Tank rams a barricade Prague 1968

Works by Josef Koudelka are currently on display at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. But be quick or you’ll miss it!

Organizační složka státu, zkoumá a nestranně hodnotí dobu nesvobody, dokumentuje nacistické a komunistické zločiny, získavá a zpřístupňuje veřejnosti dokumenty vypovídající zejména o činnosti bezpečnostních složek a formách pronásledování i odporu.

Historic Photographs and Book by Paul Goldsmith of the Soviet invasion of Prague 1968 with comments by George Schulz and Condoleeza Rice.

Josef Vajdák. Tak se jmenuje poslední oběť třiadvacetileté sovětské okupace Československa. Zemřel 16. listopadu 1990 v Teplicích. Tam, kde se rok předtím začalo demonstrovat kvůli špatnému vzduchu a odkud se protesty přelily i na pražskou Národní třídu.

“Citizens of Prague block a tank trying to end the “Prague Spring,” August 21, 1968. By Bohumil Dobrovolsky.”

These photos from the past are a quick and interesting glimpse at the times the pictures were taken. This completely random, yet somehow still interesting, list of photos will bring you your dose of fun facts and intriguing things for the day. Like, I had no idea that Alfred Hitchcock pretty much enjoyed a nice, warm cup of tea with the MGM lion. I kid you not.

"The maximum, that is what has always interested me." Czech/French, b. Czechoslovakia 1938 Josef Koudelka, born in Moravia, made his first photographs while a student in the 1950s. About the same time that he started his career as an aeronautical engineer in 1961 he also began photographing Gypsies in Czechoslovakia and theater in Prague. He turned full-time to photography in 1967. The following year, Koudelka photographed the Soviet invasion of Prague, publishing his photographs under the…

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Una favola, un sogno, una fiaba. Un angelo in bicicletta attraversa la strada, mentre due cavalli neri trascinano una carrozza accanto a lui. Foto di Josef Koudelka Foto di Josef Koudelka Un uomo accovacciato parla ad un cavallo bianco che annuisce con sguardo languido. Un bambino bacia sulle labbra la statua di una donna, che lo tiene in braccio. Un maschera gigante attraversa la piazza correndo. La sagoma di un cane nero scappa furtivo in un campo innevato. Le fotografie di Josef Koudelka…