Here is a fine col­lec­tion of images of Moscow win­ters, dat­ing from 1920s till 1991. Sadly many places por­trayed on these pho­tographs are gone now, just like the Soviet Union itself, yet lest we for­get.  Please read on to see the image of the first set of traf­fic lights in Moscow CBD in late 1930s, […]

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This is our third post devoted to Marc Riboud, an out­stand­ing French pho­tog­ra­pher, who trav­eled exten­sively through­out the Soviet Union.  His images cap­tured an array of every­day life episodes from the lives of the Soviet peo­ple.  Here is the first lot  —  and here is the sec­ond one. As always, click on the mag­ni­fy­ing glass icon to […]

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This is our sec­ond post devoted to the out­stand­ing French pho­tog­ra­pher Marc Riboud who trav­eled exten­sively through­out the Soviet Union in the 1960s. His images cap­tured an array of every­day life episodes from the lives of the Soviet peo­ple  —  today it is a col­lec­tion of images of peo­ple out in the streets. The first lot can […]

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Remem­ber the pho­to­graph of a young Amer­i­can girl with a flower who con­fronts the sol­diers with bay­o­nets, out­side the Pen­ta­gon dur­ing the 1967 anti-Vietnam march? This promi­nent image, which is said to help to turn pub­lic opin­ion against the war in Viet­nam, was taken by one of the most influ­en­tial pho­tog­ra­phers of our time, Marc […]

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