Exhibition on View—Pace/MacGill Gallery: Thursday, September 4–Saturday, October 11 Exhibition on View—Aperture Gallery: Friday, September 5–Thursday, October 30
Press Release

In 1968 Josef Koudelka was thirty years old. He had committed himself to photography as a full-time career only recently, and had been chronicling the theater, and the lives of gypsies, but he had never photographed 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 freedom in Czechoslovakia that came to be known as the Prague Spring. In the midst of the turmoil of the Soviet-led invasion, Koudelka took to the streets to document this critical moment