Back in the USSR (30 photos) Bashny.Net

Author - Jerry Cook, a famous American photographer, photojournalism from the past school assistant in the darkroom to the photo department chief of the magazine «Sports Illustrated», founder of the National Press Photographers Association (American Society of Media Photographers). Jerry (Yuri) was born in Russia in 1921. In 1923, his family lost everything as a result of the revolution, left Russia, first in Italy and then in Berlin and India. Jerry moved from India to New York and began working there in the photo agency of his uncle, simultaneously mastering the art of photography. Jerry was lucky - he hired a new editor at the magazine Life, then he signed a contract with Time Inc., as a photographer. Cook was one of the first Western photographers who, after the death of Stalin was allowed into the Soviet Union. Jerry Cook died three years ago at the age of 84 years.

USSR eyes Jerry Cook:

Nikita Khrushchev on a farm in Iowa, 1959





Boris Pasternak in Peredelkino, October 1958



Production gymnastics in the printing, 1957



Ukraine. On field work in 1960



In Moscow synagogue, 1958



Photo shop, 1957



Springboard in Kavgolovo, near Leningrad, 1959



Leningrad. Ice pick on the street, 1959



At the offices of the Moscow Hippodrome, 1958



Leningrad. Baptism in the Orthodox Church, 1958



Moscow. In figure skating school, 1958



Moscow. Sale of books in the street, 1958



Kharkov. Typewriter rolled away, 1960



Irkutsk, 1959



Sochi. Morning gymnastics in the sanatorium, 1957



Irkutsk. Collective farmer with his son, 1959



Leningrad. Football, 1959

Leningrad. Sunbathing at the wall fortress, 1958



Moscow. Passers-by on the street, 1962



Moscow. The new American car at the entrance to "National" in 1957



Moscow. The new American car at the entrance to "National" in 1957



In GUM, 1957



Ukraine. Relax on the field camp, 1957



Spectators at the racetrack, 1958



Cuban Missile Crisis. Anti-war demonstration at the American Embassy in Moscow, October 1962



Moscow. Skiers have Belosrusskaya, 1958



Moscow. In kindergarten, 1957



Taxi driver 1962



Leningrad. On the beach at the Peter and Paul Fortress, 1957



Leningrad. Valery Brumel sets a new world record in 1964

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