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Arthur Grace: Communism(s): A Cold War Album (Hardcover)
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Arthur Grace: Communism(s): A Cold War Album (Hardcover)
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For most people in the West, the realities of life behind the Iron
Curtain have faded into caricatures of police state repression and
bread lines. With the world seemingly again divided between
democracies and authoritarian regimes, it is essential that we
understand the reality of life in the Soviet Bloc. American
photojournalist Arthur Grace (born 1947) was uniquely placed to
provide that context. During the 1970s and 1980s Grace traveled
extensively behind the Iron Curtain, working primarily for news
magazines. One of only a small corps of Western photographers with
ongoing access, he was able to delve into the most ordinary corners
of people's daily lives, while also covering significant events.
Many of the photographs in this remarkable book are effectively
psychological portraits that leave the viewer with a sense of the
gamut of emotions in that era. Illustrated with over 120
black-and-white images-nearly all previously
unpublished-Communism(s) gives an unprecedented glimpse behind the
veil of a not-so-distant time filled with harsh realities unseen by
nearly all but those that lived through it. Shot in the USSR,
Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia and the German Democratic Republic,
here are portraits of factory workers, farmers, churchgoers,
vacationers and loitering teens juxtaposed with the GDR's imposing
Social Realist-designed apartment blocks, annual May Day Parades,
Poland's Solidarity movement (and the subsequent imposition of
martial law) and the vastness of Moscow's Red Square.
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