“The Czech photographer Josef Koudelka belongs to the tradition of street photography that begins with Cartier-Bresson and Brassai. It is a genre of images snatched from chance encounters with passing strangers, seen against urban backdrops and preserved in memorable form. But for a few days in August 1968, Mr. Koudelka practiced a rarer, more precarious form of street photography, taking pictures inside history, where little is clear, and nothing is still.”

Previously on Skandalon