27 portraits of the era thaw
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By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/27-portraits-of-the-era-thaw.htmlToday we decided to remember how they lived and looked the Soviet era thaw — those happy ten years that occurred in the lives of Soviet citizens immediately after Stalin's death. While the country has undergone significant changes: the release of political prisoners, the elimination of the Gulag, the occurrence of a certain freedom of speech and freedom of artistic creativity, the relative democratization of political and social life, openness to the Western world.
We present you an interesting, ambiguous portraits, made in the era thaw.
In 1967 in the American LIFE magazine published a series of very optimistic and positive photos "Soviet youth" (Soviet Youth) photographer bill Eppridge (Bill Eppridge).
We picked up some of them.
Music room at the youth wedding.
The morning of the procedure.
The concert performances.
The festive evening.
A dance number.
Relax on the beach. Group shot of smiling young people for the American photographer.
Popular at the time chess.
Joyful children swim in a makeshift pool.
A happy worker.
The beginning of the Khrushchev thaw. Trahman M. world festival of youth and students. Moscow. 1957
In 1959, a few years before the visit of the American photographer, the Muscovites met the representatives and the models of Paris fashion house Christian Dior. These pictures show a Soviet citizens look "a little" in a different way in a more realistic light.
Muscovites of 1959.
Walk through the city center in the company of locals.
The aesthetic shock that is experienced by the citizens of the Soviet Union, looking at the Parisian beauties in "overseas" clothes, does not require review — the shocked faces captured impartial camera lens Howard Sochurek.
In Gum.
Winter of the same 1959. Young Moscow worker.
In 1959, the fill pipe pitch.
Aspectological in Leningrad, 1961.
Peasant, 1960.
1960.
The working of the plant, 1961.
Bathers, 1958.
Pioneer camp in the district of Bratsk, 1963.
Akhlomov V. "Lenin". Only to come to Moscow girl on red square.
Keywords: Russian Federation | History | Youth | Photography | USSR | LIFE magazine
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