Misha Pedan - The end of la Belle Epoque
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- BindningHårdpärm
- Dimensioner i mm280x235x18
- FormgivareAnders Malmströmer
- FotografMisha Pedan
- FörlagKhimaira
- ISBN9789163729782
- MedarbetareIrina Sandomirskaia (text)
- Sidor92
- SpråkEngelska Ryska
- TitelThe end of la Belle Epoque
- Utgivningsår2013
- Vikt i g774
Beskrivning
Art.nr: 9789163729782
'Den ljuva tidsålder titeln med ironi - men kanske även med viss nostalgi - syftar på är åren strax före Sovjetunionens fall år 1989. Ukrainsk-svenske fotografen Misha Pedan har grävt i sitt arkiv och sammanställt en svit gatufotografi från bland annat Leningrad och hemstaden Charkiv 1986-1989. Det lilla livet är inte alls eländigt. Välnärda och påpälsade stadsbor trängs på vintriga trottoarer och det finns tid för gemenskap och vila mitt i vardagen.' /DN
The pictures collected in this book were made between 1986 and 1989, at the very end of the era of socialism. The fall of the Soviet regime, according to one perspective, is the central revolutionary event of our time; according to another, it represents its greatest geopolitical catastrophe. Both outlooks, however, presuppose a rapid dynamic in the movement of time, whether in its revolutionary overhaul, or in its collapse. In Misha Pedan's work, however, one observes neither a catastrophe nor a revolution. Time has loosened its grip; it has lost its heroic thrust forward and upwards. A group of athletes run a relay race that starts under a sign saying «Finish».
In Eisensteins black and white movie "Battleship Potemkin" from 1925 the flag hoisted on the boat is red, hand-coloured in every film frame, in every copy of the film. In "The End of la Belle Époque" the red flag in one of the pictures is hand-coloured red in every copy of the book. Misha Pedan lowers the flag with the same respect as it once upon a time was hoisted.
Misha Pedan is born and raised in Kharkiv in Ukraine, former USSR. Since 1990 living in Sweden. Kharkiv is known for its photo school. A group of photographers originating from there became representatives for the new Soviet photo art in the end of the eighties. Mischa works in mixed techniques from hand colored black and white photos to conceptual investigations.
He has been working as a head teacher at the photo school Kulturama in Stockholm for the past 7 years, he is founder and coordinator of the Ukrainian Photography Alternative (UPHA) and has been the curator of numerous international photographic projects.
The pictures collected in this book were made between 1986 and 1989, at the very end of the era of socialism. The fall of the Soviet regime, according to one perspective, is the central revolutionary event of our time; according to another, it represents its greatest geopolitical catastrophe. Both outlooks, however, presuppose a rapid dynamic in the movement of time, whether in its revolutionary overhaul, or in its collapse. In Misha Pedan's work, however, one observes neither a catastrophe nor a revolution. Time has loosened its grip; it has lost its heroic thrust forward and upwards. A group of athletes run a relay race that starts under a sign saying «Finish».
In Eisensteins black and white movie "Battleship Potemkin" from 1925 the flag hoisted on the boat is red, hand-coloured in every film frame, in every copy of the film. In "The End of la Belle Époque" the red flag in one of the pictures is hand-coloured red in every copy of the book. Misha Pedan lowers the flag with the same respect as it once upon a time was hoisted.
Misha Pedan is born and raised in Kharkiv in Ukraine, former USSR. Since 1990 living in Sweden. Kharkiv is known for its photo school. A group of photographers originating from there became representatives for the new Soviet photo art in the end of the eighties. Mischa works in mixed techniques from hand colored black and white photos to conceptual investigations.
He has been working as a head teacher at the photo school Kulturama in Stockholm for the past 7 years, he is founder and coordinator of the Ukrainian Photography Alternative (UPHA) and has been the curator of numerous international photographic projects.
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