Moskva /
Ratkovic, Sandra,1980-photographer.
Kaminer, Wladimir,1967-writer of supplementary textual content.
"In 2015, Sandra Ratkovic went to Moscow for the first time--the result is a cycle of absurd, colorful, disturbing, and touching photographs. The tragi-comical color photographs show a contrasting Moscow: the omnipresent military and the ubiquitous Putin cult meet kitsch and folklore. Insignia of globalization can be found next to Orthodox churches, which almost disappear amid gas stations and grey apartment blocks. In documentary style, yet at the same time tongue-in-cheek, this photography book draws a portrait of everyday life in this post-Soviet nation as a potpourri of pop-patriotism, tradition, and modernism."--Back cover.
Publication date from publisher's website.
Includes an essay by Wladimir Kaminer.
"Russian Translations: Alexander Filyuta, English Translations: Sandra Ratkovic and Profi Schnelldienst Translations"--Colophon.
"In 2015, Sandra Ratkovic went to Moscow for the first time--the result is a cycle of absurd, colorful, disturbing, and touching photographs. The tragi-comical color photographs show a contrasting Moscow: the omnipresent military and the ubiquitous Putin cult meet kitsch and folklore. Insignia of globalization can be found next to Orthodox churches, which almost disappear amid gas stations and grey apartment blocks. In documentary style, yet at the same time tongue-in-cheek, this photography book draws a portrait of everyday life in this post-Soviet nation as a potpourri of pop-patriotism, tradition, and modernism."--Back cover.
Ratkovic, Sandra, 1980-