Soviet beauty queens
Edition: Limited edition
Publisher: Dashwood Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Beauty contestants; Pictorial works; Documentary photography; Photograph collections; Archive of Modern Conflict (London, England)
Notes: Published in an edition of 500 copies as one of the 7 monographs comprising the Dashwood Books series for 2011, as described on the publisher's Web site, viewed July 1, 2013: http://photography.glossom.com/2011/11/new-series-of-monographs-by-dashwood-books/

Edition statement from publisher's Web site. The limited edition comprises 20 copies of each volume in the series, with each volume signed and numbered by the respective artist; issued together in a slipcase.

Title from colophon, inside back cover.

"These photographs were taken between 1988 and 1990 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) at various beauty contests and at the Leningrad Beauty Institute, an academy preparing aspiring beauty queens for competition. They were acquired in St. Petersburg by Timothy Prus, the curator of The Archive of Modern Conflict, an independent publisher and a private collection based in West London"--Afterword, page 60.