Now Tate Publishing is celebrating Constructivism, the Russian Civil War caricatures which preceded the period, and the Socialist Realism that followed…
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Время от времени я замечаю, что то тут, то там любители СССР постят постановочные снимки простой советской жизни, в подписях к которым уверяют, что это и есть жизнь в настоящем СССР. Мол, все советские люди жили в огромных бесплатных семикомнатных квартирах, вечно улыбались, на улицах…
Photographer Christopher Herwig has circled the former Soviet Union, exploring the most remote areas of Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine to find and photograph its unique bus stops. After the success of his first book Soviet Bus Stops, he decided to explore the subject matter again for his new follow-up collection Soviet Bus Stops Volume II. In this book Herwig focuses on Russia rather than its former Soviet counterparts, driving nearly 10,000 miles around the massive country finding its incredibly diverse transportation shelters. More
Photographer Frank Herfort has spent over a decade in Russia, tracing the mystery and myth of the wondrously surreal post-Soviet world.
Photographer Christopher Herwig spent roughly a dozen years roaming the vast expanses of the former Soviet Union, in search of the wild roadside shelters, for want of a better term, dotting the landscape in locales as exotic as Shymkent, Kazakhstan. Last year Herwig successfully funded a print run of 1,500 copies of his photo book of Soviet bus stops on Kickstarter, and now FUEL Publishing has decided that it merits a larger audience; the book, Soviet Bus Stops, will be released at the end of the month. It turns out that bus stops were a medium of startling vitality with a great deal of local control in the otherwise repressive Soviet Union. Local architects apparently didn’t think too much about budgets, and experimented in a variety of styles including brutalism or outright weirdness. During his journey Herwig covered more than 18,000 miles in 14 countries of the former Soviet Union, traveling by car, bike, bus, taxi and who knows what else. There are examples from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Abkhazia, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and Estonia. ...
Подборка архивных фотографий, превосходно иллюстрирующая общественную жизнь Советского Союза в «предгрозовых» 30-х и начале 40-х годов. По снимкам можно увидеть,
Posters from the 1930s designed to attract Africans and African-Americans to the charms of communism highlight a fascinating, almost forgotten history
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В советское время кружки, секции и курсы были не только формой досуга, но и помогали определиться с выбором профессии. Те, кто мечтал стать инженером, шли в кружки юных техников и осваивали конструирование ещё до поступления в вуз. Юные математики даже п...
They were published in Soviet Union Magazine, were distributed across Europe and the Americas in an effort to generate sympathy for the Communist country.
Помежду коледните и новогодишните купони и тържества, ви каним да разгледате няколко вековни костюма от постановката на известната пиеса "Синята...
Фотографии, сделанные американскими фотокорреспондентами в Одессе в 1957, 1979, 1981 и 1982 годах. Elliott Erwitt - USSR. Odessa. 1957 Elliott Erwitt - USSR. Odessa. 1957 Ian Berry - Ukraine. Odessa. Women at prayer in the St Panteleimon Church. 1982 Ian Berry Ukraine. Odessa. Children in…
A large photo of Leonid Brezhnev is trundled through Red Square during a parade, early 1970s
Снимки знаменитого фотографа «Огонька», которые позволяют своими глазами увидеть, как поколение наших бабушек и дедушек жило в 1950-х.
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Frank Herfort travelled all over Russia photographing skyscrapers that had been quickly built after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Frank Herfort travelled all over Russia photographing skyscrapers that had been quickly built after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
