In this week’s Talk of the Town, Mark Singer visits Josef Koudelka’s exhibition of photographs from the Soviet-led invasion of Prague in August, 1968, on view in Moscow for the first time. Below, a selection of photos from Koudelka’s “Invasion Prague 68,” with quotes from Singer’s text (subscribers can read the full story).
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“On August 21, 1968, in Prague, Josef Koudelka—a man with a camera, thirty years old—received a middle-of-the-night phone call from a friend. Soviet tanks had crossed the border into Czechoslovakia.”
Photographs by Josef Koudelka/Magnum.
