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AS ORIGINALLY SHRINK WRAPPED COPY!
Background information
"In the late evening hours of August 20, 1968, troops from five Warsaw Pact countries invade Czechoslovakia. Tanks roll over the streets of Prague, transport planes drop troops. 650,000 soldiers are to restore order in the socialist brother state, which the Prague Spring under Dubcek and Svoboda supposedly threatened. The world holds its breath; war seems inevitable. But then happens what was later called the 'Seven Days Miracle of Prague': Unarmed citizens oppose the invading forces by the thousands, and civilian, non-violent resistance has begun. 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of this historic moment. Czech photographer Josef KOUDELKA, a Magnum member since 1971, witnessed the events and captured them in moving images that he was able to get out of the country in time. They were anonymously published a year later with the help of Magnum Photos. Josef KOUDELKA was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal for the series 'Invasion Prague 68' - also anonymously - and had to leave his country shortly afterwards.Content
The chronicle of images that Josef KOUDELKA himself compiled from his archive for this edition, forty years after the invasion, impressively revives the mood of the heroic seven days of Prague." (© Schirmer / Mosel, 2008)About Czech Magnum photographer, Josef KOUDELKA (b. 1938)
Photo books by, with his participation and on the work of Josef KOUDELKA
- Format
- Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 32,5 x 2,5 cm., 296 S., 249 duotone S/W-Abb., 2.000 gr., deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!