Old Russian Photos
Posted by Jonathan on April 2nd, 2005 (All posts by Jonathan)
Here’s a series of exhibitions of old photos from the USSR that’s worth looking at. The war photos are particularly striking (example) but everything is worth looking at.
UPDATE: D.B. Light, in the comments, forwards this link to a larger collection.
April 2nd, 2005 at 10:45 am
The photos of Stalingrad are remarkable.
April 2nd, 2005 at 12:43 pm
Early Soviet Uzbekistan
Party Meeting, 1930:
Ferghana Oblast’ Bazaar, 1927:
Construction of the Grand Ferghana Canal, 1939:
Some of those hats look rounder than one would currently find them… Plus check out how the woman at the right of this photo is …
April 2nd, 2005 at 1:18 pm
The prices more so.
April 2nd, 2005 at 3:55 pm
Yeah, they are pricey. OTOH, the higher they are priced the longer they are likely to be available for viewing on the Web.
April 2nd, 2005 at 10:22 pm
This seems to be excerpted from the much larger collection at the Howard Schickler Fine Art Gallery in Brooklyn. These are on the web at http://www.schicklerart.com/exhibitions/index.html
I blogged the site a few days ago here:
Link
Check out the larger collection — history of golf, early astronomy, space flight, Italian futurism, chimps in space, etc.
April 3rd, 2005 at 12:18 am
Excellent photos, thanks for sharing.