"... The basic color was gray" Bashny.Net

The period 1990-1995, Russia. 23 frames a French photojournalist Jean-Paul Pierre Guyotat made in different regions of our country in those years, narrow-minded that we are in such a hurry to push back the mythology

Landscape remaining after the USSR. The atmosphere of the street, face paints, clothing and things of that time, when the Soviet empire unexpectedly and suddenly disappeared, but its physical attributes are still around us. "Alternative" future made itself felt only sparse new details - tasteless signs, "lumps", the flea market near the metro, bottled beer, suddenly ceased to be a "deficiency» ...
23 Photo © Jean-Paul Guilloteau / AFP / Roger-Viollet / East News via rusrep.ru





These shots suddenly appeared right in Photowire AFP news simply because it was available to a new entrant from the archives of the French Agency Roger-Viollet. They immediately stopped view, standing out from the motley stream of digital news XXI Century its color old color film. It was impossible to miss.



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