Time for a revolution: how the art of 1968 caught a world in turmoil | Culture | The Guardian
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Photography: ‘The moment a country lost its sense of self’
On 19 August #1968, Josef Koudelka returned to Czechoslovakia from Romania, where he had been living among and photographing Romany Gypsies. The following day, Soviet tanks appeared on the streets of Prague. For seven days, the 30-year-old Moravian-born photographer roamed the city with his East German Exakta Varex camera loaded with movie film, the only stock he could find at short notice.