Please excuse me for today’s short post - it’s been a hectic day on campus with work, classes, meetings, and various other time commitments. Anyway, I stumbled across (via Boing Boing) a collection of Russian photographs taken between 1917 and 1945 by the Brooklyn art gallery during a break from reading Leo Tolstoy’s collection of short stories. For those whose history is rusty, this time period encompases the revolutions between the Reds and the Whites (that helped Finland gain its independence), as well as, World War II. It’s well worth flicking through the fifty or so photos as several of them are quite powerful and emotionally loaded. All are shot in black and white (oh how I love black and white photography) and for me, the most moving one is definitely ‘Stand till Death’ by Emanuil Evzerikhin taken in the 1940s.
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