Table of contents:
- 1. Girl with dandelions
- 2. Not an easy choice
- 3. Belarusian
- 4. Hero of the Underground
- 5. In the summer of 1976
- 6. Equestrian club
- 7. In the children's theater of a young actor
- 8. Call from the past
Video: The life of Soviet people in the 1950s through the lens of the Belarusian photographer Valery Bysov
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Pictures of amazing warmth and kind nostalgia from Valery Vasilyevich Bysov, a Belarusian photographer who started doing what he loved in the 1950s and who devoted several decades to shooting.
1. Girl with dandelions
2. Not an easy choice
Valery Vasilyevich Bysov was born on October 24, 1946 in the city of Krichev, Mogilev region, Republic of Belarus. Studied photography independently from the age of 12. Valery Vasilyevich described the beginning of his career in photography: “Once at school they announced that they were recruiting for a photo circle. I am late. They didn't take me. The circle was led by a war veteran, a front-line teacher Peter Stanislavovich Murinsky. Angry that I was not accepted into the circle, I furiously began to take photographs on my own: I took pictures, developed, printed. When I was in seventh grade, the very popular Soviet pioneer newspaper "Zorka" published my first photograph called "Willpower." I photographed Slavik Dubinsky doing his homework, while Rolik Belofastov is standing behind him with skates. At school, the teachers shouted at me, they say, what have you done, because Slavik is a quitter, and Valik is an excellent student. The picture should have been the other way around. But I withstood the pressure. Then I started to publish in the regional newspaper. In the early sixties on the front page of the all-Union newspaper "Znamya Yunosti" was printed my photo about the commissioning of the third technological line of the Krichevsky cement plant. Later I became friends with the head of the circle, Murinsky …"
3. Belarusian
4. Hero of the Underground
The first publication was followed by others, for more than 30 years Valery Bysov worked as a photojournalist in regional newspapers of the Mogilev region, as well as in the regional newspaper of the Shumyach district of the Smolensk region.
5. In the summer of 1976
“I worked closely and published in such Soviet newspapers as Pravda, Izvestia, Selskaya Zhizn, Zvezda, Komsomolskaya Pravda, etc. At one time I was a member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR, laureate of awards of the Union of Journalists of Belarus, a freelance correspondent for BelTA, as well as the winner of many photo contests, both in the USSR and in independent Belarus. I am currently on a well-deserved pension."
6. Equestrian club
7. In the children's theater of a young actor
8. Call from the past
The photographer's black-and-white films preserve the history of the people with their workdays and family joys. "People of the Earth", "Soviet Workers", "Nature of Belarus", "Beautiful and Talented", "Wonderful Soviet Childhood" and other albums by Valery Bysov can be viewed on his Facebook page. This material contains only a small part of his excellent archive with the signatures of the author.
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