Antonin Kratochvil took these photographs in the late seventies. The performers in ‘Sideshow’ toured America in the summer and spent the winter in Florida.
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Antonin Kratochvil lives in New York. A collection of his photographs of Eastern Europe, Work in Progress, was published in 1993.
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