Arthur Grace: Communisms: A Cold War Album - Richard Hornik
Arthur Grace: Communisms: A Cold War Album - Richard Hornik An unusually intimate, close-quarters account of daily life in postwar communist countriesFor most people in the West, the realities of…
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Arthur Grace: Communisms: A Cold War Album - Richard Hornik
An unusually intimate, close-quarters account of daily life in postwar communist countriesFor most people in the West, the realities of life behind the Iron Curtain have faded into caricatures of police state repression and bread lines. American photojournalist Arthur Grace (born 1947) was uniquely placed to provide that context.During the 1970s and 1980s Grace traveled extensively behind the Iron Curtain, working primarily for news magazines. With the world seemingly again divided between democracies and authoritarian regimes, it is essential that we understand the reality of life in the Soviet Bloc.
Many of the photographs in this remarkable book are effectively One of only a small corps of Western photographers with ongoing access, he was able to delve into the most ordinary corners of people's daily lives, while also covering significant events.