For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20th, 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 Janus-faced 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 emotion-tensed 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.
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