Artistic Photography Shortly Before Perestroika

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Fall’s Gifts / Rainy Day by A. Suprun from the book “Ama­teur Pho­tog­ra­phy”, Kiev 1986

A small col­lec­tion of pho­tos from two pho­tog­ra­phy books pub­lished in the 1980s in the USSR. All pho­tographs from this set are by ama­teur photo artists from the republics of Ukraine (Ama­teur Pho­tog­ra­phy, 1986) and Moldovia (Mol­da­vian Artis­tic Pho­tog­ra­phy, 1985). Please remem­ber to click on the mag­ni­fy­ing glass icon to see the full-size image.

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Life by P. Balan

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Red Flags by A. Lykov

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The Ele­ments by A. Lykov

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The Win­dow by A. Palamar

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Graph­ics by P. Bodu

Again, if you need to clar­ify what is on the pho­tos  —  do not hes­i­tate to ques­tion. Many thanks to a Russ­ian pho­tog­ra­pher Liubov Sautina for send­ing us these pic­tures. Please visit her Flickr page.

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