David Hlynsky: Window-Shopping Through the Iron Curtain
David Hlynsky
Hardcover | 17.27 x 2.29 x 24.89 cm | 208 pp
Thames and Hudson | 2008 |Â 9780500252116
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 Hlynskyâs own account of his time as a flâneur in the shopping plazas behind the Iron Curtain.
David Hlynsky
Hardcover | 17.27 x 2.29 x 24.89 cm | 208 pp
Thames and Hudson | 2008 |Â 9780500252116
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 Hlynskyâs own account of his time as a flâneur in the shopping plazas behind the Iron Curtain.
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David Hlynsky
Hardcover | 17.27 x 2.29 x 24.89 cm | 208 pp
Thames and Hudson | 2008 |Â 9780500252116
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 Hlynskyâs own account of his time as a flâneur in the shopping plazas behind the Iron Curtain.
