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Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith
Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith Photographer Jason Eskenazi traveled throughout Russia before and after the fall of the USSR and created a remarkable photobook that reverberates with the classic structure of dark fairy tales. Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith, opens with the image of a woman looking out over Moscow from a window high in a hotel, her back naked to the camera. “She’s the protagonist in this story,” writes photographer Jason Eskenazi.
Diane Arbus: 9 Photographers Discuss the Legend's Early Days
Whether in painting, music, literature, as in all the Arts, we tend to know the masters’ oeuvres inside-out. We know Johannes Vermeer had 34 paintings; we know that Beethoven had nine symphonies. So when a newly discovered dusty musical manuscript appears in the hand of the composer, an previously unknown Vermeer appears from a private collection or a safely-vaulted Salinger book gets released years after his death, we all sit up and take notice. Is this work up to their standards?
WONDERLAND: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith
The USSR was not only a vast closed territory with extensive geographical boundaries that stretched from Europe through Asia but is also a huge well of memory or dis-memory - a utopian vision that became a dystopian nightmare lasting nearly a century. The story of Communism is the story of the 20th century. For many, the Soviet Union existed, like their childhood, as a fairy tale where many of the realities of life were hidden from plain view.
Life and Death in St. Petersburg
As the first snow of the season fell on St. Petersburg, Russia, Svetlana, 17, sat with two new acquaintances on a bench. They talked, giggled, and waited. Three hours later, they would continue their conversation in the ladies room, over cigarettes, as they put on their make-up, ready to return home. The only difference between those two conversations is that now, in between puffs, they can speak about being free from their pregnancies.
Chechnya Update | Alicia Patterson Foundation
The continuing breakup of the former Soviet Union plays out in misery and hardship. Women in the break-away republic of Chechnya wash clothes on the outskirts of Grozny from a hot water pipe. Most of the city's residents are without hot water and electricity. Local demonstrations occur almost daily in Chechen towns to protest the renewed Russian bomb attacks on villages in the countryside where rebels are thought to be based.
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