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Book Synopsis
Presents 170 images, mainly shop window displays, shot by the author during the final years of the collapsing Soviet empire in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany and Moscow, using a Hasselblad camera to capture the slow, undramatic moments of daily life on the streets.

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'The pictures reveal a world without enterprise ... almost 30 years ago' - Daily Mail
'A fascinating view of an old era of consumerism that began to crumble with the Berlin Wall in 1989' - Independent
'In 170 photos, Hlynsky's book portrays a colourful and almost childlike world now absent' - GUP magazine

Table of Contents
Artist’s Statement (David Hlynsky) • Introduction: What Was it Like to Shop in these Streets? (David Hlynsky) • The Windows (photographs of c. 160 shop windows) • Stops Along the Way: David Hlynsky’s Communist (and Decommunizing) Shop Windows (essay by Martha Langford) • The Next Thing You Buy (essay by Jody Berland)

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      Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
      Publication Date: 23/02/2015
      ISBN13: 9780500252116, 978-0500252116
      ISBN10: 0500252114
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Presents 170 images, mainly shop window displays, shot by the author during the final years of the collapsing Soviet empire in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany and Moscow, using a Hasselblad camera to capture the slow, undramatic moments of daily life on the streets.

      Trade Review
      'The pictures reveal a world without enterprise ... almost 30 years ago' - Daily Mail
      'A fascinating view of an old era of consumerism that began to crumble with the Berlin Wall in 1989' - Independent
      'In 170 photos, Hlynsky's book portrays a colourful and almost childlike world now absent' - GUP magazine

      Table of Contents
      Artist’s Statement (David Hlynsky) • Introduction: What Was it Like to Shop in these Streets? (David Hlynsky) • The Windows (photographs of c. 160 shop windows) • Stops Along the Way: David Hlynsky’s Communist (and Decommunizing) Shop Windows (essay by Martha Langford) • The Next Thing You Buy (essay by Jody Berland)

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