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JOSEF KOUDELKA
HE IS A FRENCH STREET PHOTOGRAPHER WHO’S EMPHASIS IS ON SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RITUALS AS WELL AS DEATH
THE DOMINANT REASON TO CHOOSE HIM WAS THAT HIS PHOTOGRAPHS TAKES ONE TO THE AMBIENCE OF THE PICTURE WHICH SHOWS THE EXACT SITUATION OF A PLACE
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THE BARRIER
HIGHLIGHTING THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN SEPERATION
EPHASISING THAT THERE IS STILL ROAD LEFT STILL IT HAS BEEN BLOCKED
IN AUGUST 1968, A COMBINED FORCE OF SOVIET, BULGARIAN, POLISH AND HUNGARIAN TROOPS INVADED THE FAST-LIBERALISING CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
HE TOOK THIS PICTURE WHILE THE INVAISION ACTIVITIES STOPPED FOR A WHILE REFERING THAT TIME IS STILL GOING ON WAITING FOR NONE
THE PROTESTOR
HERE THE PICTURE SPEAKES FOR ITSELF A PROTESTOR SCREAMING ON THE ARMY WHO INVADED
FESTIVAL OF GYPSY MUSIC, TWO DAYS BEFORE THE SOVIET INVASION
THIS PICTURE HIGLIGHTS THE CONTRAST IN THE SITUATION THAT PEOPLE WERE CELEBRATING AND LATER IN TWO DAYS INVASION HAPPENED
