Aperture Gallery
547 W 27th St
4th Fl
212.505.5555
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Josef Koudelka, Prague, Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, © Josef Koudelka / Magnum
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Sep 4, 2008 – Oct 30, 2008
Tuesdays–Fridays (9:30am–5:30pm)
Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies rolled into Prague, ending the peace and emptying the city of many of its artists (Milos Forman, for example). During the tumultuous week that followed, Josef Koudelka documented the invasion with the citizen's most potent armament: a camera. The photographer's seminal portfolio is full of what Cartier-Bresson called decisive moments — each emotionally powerful image is framed in a specific context that transforms it from the incidental to the iconic. Starting today, Pace/McGill and Aperture Gallery collaborate to exhibit the photos in their proper, outsized format.
