Is there history, or are there only stories of the past? Are we seeing only what we want to see? How much has the present culture and the ideology of the author influenced the interpretation of archival footage? At the end of the millenium the historical balance sheet tells us that recomposing the past is never neutral, but is always essential to understanding and defining the present.
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In 1987 a set of several hundred colored slides from the period of the second World War were discovered in a Viennese antique book shop. It turned out that they were of…
Photographer (PL04)
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Prague, August 1968. Troops from five Warsaw Pact countries move into Czechoslovakia. The events, such as the demonstration outside the Prague radio building that was to…
Prague 21.8.1968
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Berlin, October 7, 1989. Michael Gorbachev, who is returning from his visit to the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the GDR, boards his plane destined for Moscow.…
World War III
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