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Ladislav Bielik, The Bare-chested Man in Front of the Occupier‘s Tank, August 1968
BySylvie FodorThe combination of groundbreaking technology and badly crafted legislation, could make any search of photographs, and by implication their authors, completely redundant.
Last week I received a phone call from the photo editor of a photo magazine in France: Le Magazine Littéraire. The photo researcher was desperately looking for the author of a photograph. Easy to google: just search for the name of the photographer “Bielik”. The picture appears at the top of the search in several formats: a beautiful and dramatic picture, showing a man baring his chest to a Soviet tank. This picture is world famous. It was published in several newspapers in the West, won several awards and became one of those symbolic photographs illustrating an historical event.
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