Window-shopping through the Iron Curtain / David Hlynsky.

Title:

ISBN:

9780500252116

Personal Author:

Hlynsky, David

Publication Information:

London : Thames & Hudson, 2015.

Physical Description:

208 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

General Note:

"176 photographs, 174 in color."

Contents:

Introduction : What was it like to shop in these streets? -- The windows -- Stops along the way : David Hlynsky's communist (and decommunizing) shop windows / Martha Langford -- The next thing you buy / Jody Berland.

Summary:

Window-Shopping through the Iron Curtain presents a selection of more than 100 images of shop windows shot by David Hlynsky during four trips taken between 1986 and 1990 to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Moscow. Using a Hasselblad camera, Hlynsky captured the slow, routine moments of daily life on the streets and in the shop windows of crumbling Communist countries. --Publisher's description.

Personal Subject:

Hlynsky, David.

Subject Term:

Street photography--Soviet Union

Street photography--Communist countries

Show windows--Soviet Union -- Pictorial works

Show windows--Communist countries -- Pictorial works

Added Author:

Langford, Martha

Berland, Jody

OCLC Number:

ocn921302678