Soviet Signs and Street Relics

This book presents Russia’s forgotten world of avant‑garde public signage. French photographer Jason Guilbeau has used Google Street View to virtually navigate Russia and the former USSR, searching for examples of a forgotten Soviet empire. From remote rural roadsides to densely populated cities, the photographs reveal traces of history in plain sight: a brutalist hammer and sickle stands in a remote field; a jet fighter is anchored to the ground by its concrete exhaust plume. This collection of photographs portrays a surreal reality: it is a document of a vanishing era, captured by an omniscient technology that is continually deleting and replenishing itself―an inadvertent definition of Russia today.

Details

Type

Book

Place of publication

London

Publisher

FUEL

Year

2020

Number of pages

192 pages

Language

English

ISBN

9781916218406

Open stacks or available on request

Available on request

Illustrations

Yes

Bibliography

No

UDC code and author sign

770.9 Gui

Volumes

1

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