In 1968, Josef Koudelka was a 30-year-old acclaimed theatre 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 Prague Spring. In the midst of the turmoil of the Soviet-led invasion, he took a series of photographs which were miraculously smuggled out of the country
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Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968
Joseph Koudelka Prague, 1968