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I’m deep-rooted in the East | Interview with Rafał Milach
Rafał Milach (b. 1978, Poland) is a visual artist and photographer who has been working on long-term projects on topics related to the transformation of the former Eastern Bloc. We sat down with Rafał to discuss his works; how photography can be a tool of propaganda and change; the near
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Where waiting is a pleasure | Peter Ortner’s Soviet Bus Stops photo series
Some people adore it, some are taken aback by it, and some cannot prescind from the historical past attached to them—but surely, the architecture of socialism cannot be ignored. German photographer Peter Ortner and his wife felt similarly, who unexpectedly fell in love with these extraordinary bus stops that
design
Feast of Contradictions | Sebestyén Boér
Snack at your grandmother, quick appetite suppression after a school running race or the most classic menu at a house party—we know a thousand faces of bread and dripping with or without onions, but it may have never caused as much aesthetic pleasure as Sebestyén Boér’s project.
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A book celebrating the matchboxes of socialism
Did the designers of the former matchboxes think that they were not only designing a striking everyday object but enclosing a slice of the socialist era in a time capsule?
Her love of history and design flew Glasgow’s web designer Jane McDevitt to the library, where she came across
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Feast of Contradictions | Sebestyén Boér
Snack at your grandmother, quick appetite suppression after a school running race or the most classic menu at a house party—we know a thousand faces of bread and dripping with or without onions, but it may have never caused as much aesthetic pleasure as Sebestyén Boér’s project.
The
architecture
Cinemas from the Eastern Bloc
Raw concrete, monumental, robust shapes, some greyness combined with a hopeless feeling: these Socialist Modernist cinema buildings are like the set of a sci-fi movie.
ROSSIYA THEATER
Moscow, Russia | Y.N. Sheverdyaev, D.S. Solopov, E. Hadkinsky | 1961
Soviet movies form an integral part of film history, thus perhaps it