Table of contents:
- 1. Communal apartment
- 2. The symbol of the early 90s
- 3. Conversation with the prisoner
- 4. Queue to the dining room
- 5. Earthquake in Armenia
- 6. One of the victims of the earthquake
- 7. First International Hairdressing Competition in Moscow
- 8. Vysotsky's funeral
- 9. Special reception center in Moscow
- 10. Glass containers
- 11. After Afgan
- 12. Photo of Lenin in America
- 13. An avalanche in Georgia
- 14. Minerals
- 15. Children behind bars
- 16. Road to the Pamirs
- 17. Pending
- 18. First flight
- 19. Village rocking chair
- 20. Rest
- 21. On the market
- 22. In the hotel
- 23. At the junkyard
- 24. Trap
Video: The undisguised truth: 24 photographs of Igor Gavrilov about life in the USSR
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Igor Gavrilov is still considered a living legend of photojournalism today. Each of his photographs is a real life without retouching and embellishment. Many of Gavrilov's photographs during the Soviet era were not published only because they were painfully true. In our review there are photographs that were taken by this master in various periods - from student years to adulthood.
1. Communal apartment
2. The symbol of the early 90s
3. Conversation with the prisoner
4. Queue to the dining room
5. Earthquake in Armenia
6. One of the victims of the earthquake
7. First International Hairdressing Competition in Moscow
8. Vysotsky's funeral
9. Special reception center in Moscow
10. Glass containers
11. After Afgan
12. Photo of Lenin in America
13. An avalanche in Georgia
14. Minerals
15. Children behind bars
16. Road to the Pamirs
17. Pending
18. First flight
19. Village rocking chair
20. Rest
21. On the market
22. In the hotel
23. At the junkyard
24. Trap
Of particular interest are 18 most expensive photographs of Soviet authors sold at Sotheby's in London … Interesting shots that deserve the attention of photographers, historians and just curious people.
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