IVAN KYNCL

Prague-born Ivan Kyncl (19532004) attracted international attention in the 1970s: he managed to secretly photograph the surveillanc e practices of the secret police and to smuggle photographs into the West. Kyncl not only documented the persecution of Czech dissid ents, he also revealed the everyday life of marginalised groups in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic following the suppression of the Prague Spring. He did so from an ideologically deviant perspective that ran contrary to the aesthetic normalisation of Sociali st Realism. ...[Read more]