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"Precise and incorruptible: Christoph GRILL’s view of the states in the former Soviet Union (...)
In grand photographs, Austrian photographer Christoph GRILL documents the signs of decay in the successor states of the Soviet Union and other regions in the former East Bloc.
His photographs of Albania, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan capture unsentimental portraits of everyday life: children playing amid the ruins of communist utopias, triumphal ararches in the middle of nowhere, grass growing in the cracks of military parade grounds.
GRILL‘s photographic notes locate the things seen on his travels, the people he encountered, and their will to survive, also—and in face of—the striking symptoms of decline." (© Hatje Cantz, 2012)
In grand photographs, Austrian photographer Christoph GRILL documents the signs of decay in the successor states of the Soviet Union and other regions in the former East Bloc.
His photographs of Albania, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan capture unsentimental portraits of everyday life: children playing amid the ruins of communist utopias, triumphal ararches in the middle of nowhere, grass growing in the cracks of military parade grounds.
GRILL‘s photographic notes locate the things seen on his travels, the people he encountered, and their will to survive, also—and in face of—the striking symptoms of decline." (© Hatje Cantz, 2012)
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Ulf Brunnbauer, Ulrich Tragatschnig
- Book design
- Elke EDERER
- Format
- Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 35 x 29 x 2,5 cm., 192 pp., 106 color ills., bilingual texts: German / English