SOVETSKOE FOTO AND PHOTOGRAPHY CLUBS IN THE LATE SOVIET PERIOD
Journal: Studia Culturae (Institute of Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University)
Year: 2016

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, photography became re-popularized as an amateur hobby, which had been unavailable to Soviet citizens since the early 1920s and the liquidation of original amateur societies. Khrushchev’s attention to consumer goods meant that cameras and equipment were affordable for the first time in decades. In lieu of formal educational structures for both professional photojournalists and amateur photographers, Sovetskoe foto and the photo section of the Union of Journalist