No retouch. Soviet style

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No retouch. Soviet style

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The long-awaited new book by Alexander Vasiliev, the best-selling author of "Beauty in Exile", a world-famous fashion historian, collector and TV presenter! Over 250 illustrations from the author's collection, accompanied by his fascinating story! “Having carefully studied the treasures of American, European and Soviet newspapers and magazines, as well as numerous family archives that fell into my hands, I have compiled them into a book that will be an amazing visual guide for a new generation, for those who are not indifferent to historical memory, as if we did not belong to the legacy of the USSR. Through this publication, I can tell the representatives of the new generation about how the life of a Soviet person was really built, even if in the reflection of black and white photography, because color printing was a rarity until the 1960s. Album "Without retouching. Soviet Style” is a unique opportunity to take a fresh look at the history of a state that ceased to exist in 1991.” Alexander Vasiliev When our author, the famous fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev, brought his huge archive of photographs to the publishing house, the editors gasped. What to do with such a grandiose material? And here is the photographic material selected, the most “talking” about the Soviet era, accompanied by texts by Alexander Vasiliev. The reader is presented with a picture of the everyday life of a Soviet person, shown through a photographic lens: where they lived, how they rested, how they dressed up for dances, parades and demonstrations, what images were created in the theater, cinema and on the stage. Why "without retouching"? Because retouching was used mainly to correct pictures of officials. For example, when another party leader fell into disgrace, in the photograph his hand, lying on the shoulder of a still unharmed comrade-in-arms, was shaded so that it simply merged with the clothes. And in place of the face of the newly minted enemy of the people, a bouquet of flowers suddenly appeared. Some photographs passed to Alexander Vasilyev from his father, the artist Alexander Pavlovich Vasilyev, but the lion's share of the collection was formed from what the author, being a Soviet schoolboy, found in the ruins, much later - at flea markets in different countries. Well, someone himself brought his family pictures to Alexander, knowing how reverently he treats historical memory and how carefully he keeps it.

Barcode: 9785387016882 SKU: 70151507 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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