
October 27, 2016
Shopping Through the Iron Curtain

Moscow, 1990

I was in Budapest in 1990 and I remember well the shock of walking through those post-communist streets. Absent of homogenizing advertising, without franchises or chain stores, I felt a mixture of appreciation for the vernacular (look at that display, it’s just like a Malevich!), combined with the awareness that this was a privileged point of view: a form of aesthetic imperialism, if such a thing can be said to exist.

Moscow, 1990


Yugoslavia, 1989
All images ©2015 David Hlynsky
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