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| 21 August 1968 |  | Tanks from the Warsaw Pact invade Prague to crush a short-lived period of political freedom in Czechoslovakia - the Prague Spring. Josef Koudelka documents the invasion and the photographs are widely published in the West although the name of the photographer is not given. In 1969 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award was awarded anonymously but it was not until sixteen years later that the identity of the photographer is acknowledged. On the fortieth anniversary of the invasion in 2008 Aperture publishes the book Invasion 68: Prague containing two hundred and fifty of the photographs Koudelka took. |
G. Agié (1871, 21 August - 1932, 17 December) was born - France, Cahors. Photographer of couture in the first decades of the 20th century with a studio at 50, rue St. Lazare, Paris, France.
Jacques Gabriel François Agié was born on August 21, 1871 in Cahors, a city located in the southwest of More...
Ger Dekkers (1929, 21 August - ) was born - The Netherlands, Borne. Dutch artist.
Patrick Demarchelier (1943, 21 August - 2022, 31 March) was born - France, Paris. Fashion photographer.
Conn H. Irber (1911, 21 August - 1982, 20 June) was born - US, MN, St. Paul.
Andrzej Maciejewski (1959, 21 August - ) was born - Poland. Polish-born photographer who immigrated to Canada in 1985. Major projects include the rephotographic project "After Notman", which was exhibited in the McCord Museum of Canadian History. Other rephotographic projects include work on the City of More...
William James Mullins (1860, 21 August - 1917, 17 January) was born - US, OH, Stubenville.
José Ortiz-Echagüe (1886, 21 August - 1980, 7 September) was born - Spain, Guadalajara. One of the greatest of the Spanish pictorialists and nowhere near as well known as he deserves to be.
Josephine Sacabo (1944, 21 August - ) was born - US, TX, Laredo. Her brooding dark toned prints are frequently inspired by poetry and her Latin roots.
Christian Schad (1894, 21 August - 1982, 25 February) was born - Germany, Upper Bavaria, Miesbach. German photographer, collagist and painter.
Platt D. Babbitt (1822, 22 May - 1879, 21 August) died - US, NY, S. Wales. Babbitt operated a gallery in November 1850 on Ridout St. in London Ontario, and in August of that year he advertised as itinerant in Niagara Falls. By 1853 he was established at Niagara Falls, NY, and on July 17 made at least one image of Joseph More...
Ferdinando Ongania (1842, 18 July - 1911, 21 August) died - Switzerland, St. Moritz. Italian photographer who in the 1890s issued the two volume "Calli e Canali in Venezia" (Streets and Canals in Venice) containing one hundred photogravures of the canals, streets and inhabitants of Venice.
George Tosco Peppé (1848, 16 July - 1893, 21 August) died - India, Ranchi. |
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