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Window-Shopping through the Iron Curtain
David Hlynsky
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Description for Window-Shopping through the Iron Curtain
Hardcover. Presents 170 images, mainly shop window displays, shot by the author during the final years of the collapsing Soviet empire in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany and Moscow, using a Hasselblad camera to capture the slow, undramatic moments of daily life on the streets. Num Pages: 208 pages, 176 illustrations, 174 in colour. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DVU; AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 170 x 22. Weight in Grams: 856.
The book presents 170 images, mainly shop window displays, shot by artist David Hlynsky during the final years of the collapsing Soviet empire in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany and Moscow, using a Hasselblad camera to capture the slow, undramatic moments of daily life on the streets. The photographs are accompanied by essays by art historian Martha Langford and cultural studies specialist Jody Berland, as well as Hlynsky’s own account of his time as a flâneur in the shopping plazas behind the Iron Curtain.
The book presents 170 images, mainly shop window displays, shot by artist David Hlynsky during the final years of the collapsing Soviet empire in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany and Moscow, using a Hasselblad camera to capture the slow, undramatic moments of daily life on the streets. The photographs are accompanied by essays by art historian Martha Langford and cultural studies specialist Jody Berland, as well as Hlynsky’s own account of his time as a flâneur in the shopping plazas behind the Iron Curtain.
Product Details
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500252116
SKU
V9780500252116
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Ref
99-50
About David Hlynsky
David Hlynsky is Senior Lecturer in Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto. He is founding editor of the alternative photography magazine Image Nation (1973–83), and the author of Baggage and Salvage.
Reviews for Window-Shopping through the Iron Curtain
'The pictures reveal a world without enterprise ... almost 30 years ago' - Daily Mail 'A fascinating view of an old era of consumerism that began to crumble with the Berlin Wall in 1989' - Independent 'In 170 photos, Hlynsky's book portrays a colourful and almost childlike world now absent' - GUP magazine