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Abstract Photograph Post Soviet Russian Avant Garde Solarized Non Conformist
By Valentin Samarine
Located in Surfside, FL
Valentin Samarine started doing abstract painting in the 60s, and abstract photography in the 70s
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
Post Soviet Russian Avant Garde Art Photograph Mixed Media Gum Arabic Photo
By Igor Vishnyakov
Located in Surfside, FL
technique is mixed media, combining classical photography, gum arabic pigment printing, tempera painting and
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Photographic Paper
Post Soviet Russian Avant Garde Photograph Mixed Media Gum Arabic Photo Painting
By Igor Vishnyakov
Located in Surfside, FL
technique is mixed media, combining classical photography, gum arabic pigment printing, tempera painting and
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Mixed Media
Post Soviet Russian Avant Garde Art Photograph Mixed Media Gum Arabic Photo
By Igor Vishnyakov
Located in Surfside, FL
technique is mixed media, combining classical photography, gum arabic pigment printing, tempera painting and
Category
Early 2000s Nude Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Photographic Paper
Post Soviet Russian Avant Garde Photograph Mixed Media Gum Arabic Photo Painting
By Igor Vishnyakov
Located in Surfside, FL
technique is mixed media, combining classical photography, gum arabic pigment printing, tempera painting and
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Photographic Paper
Post Soviet Russian Avant Garde Art Photograph Mixed Media Gum Bichromate Photo
By Igor Vishnyakov
Located in Surfside, FL
technique is mixed media, combining classical photography, gum arabic pigment printing, tempera painting and
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Photographic Paper
Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag, Berlin, 1945 - Yevgeny Khaldei (Photography)
By Yevgeny Khaldei
Located in London, GB
Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag, Berlin, 1945 - Yevgeny Khaldei (Photography)
Signed on reverse
Category
Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hungarian revolutionaries hanging pro-Soviet activist, Hungary 1956.
By Rolf Gillhausen
Located in Cologne, DE
Hungarian revolutionaries hanging pro-Soviet activist, Hungary 1956.
Keywords: Hungary; Hungarian
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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H 11.97 in W 9.41 in
Soviet Scientists in 1960s - Vintage B/W photo
Located in Roma, IT
Soviet scientists is an original photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer.
Typed notes on
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sportivnaya Station, St Petersburg, Russia, Photography 2015, Printed After
By David Burdeny
Located in Greenwich, CT
-hours access to the subway stations, and his images Soviet-era stations, whose ornate designs and
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, Paper, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Inkjet, Digital, C Pr...
Palace Square, St Petersburg, Russia, Photography 2015, Printed After
By David Burdeny
Located in Greenwich, CT
-hours access to the subway stations, and his images Soviet-era stations, whose ornate designs and
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, Paper, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Inkjet, Digital, C Pr...
Jimmy Nelson - XIII 479 // Nenets, Russia, Photography 2011, Printed After
By Jimmy Nelson
Located in Greenwich, CT
lifestyle. From the late Stalin period, all children have been enrolled in Soviet boarding schools, this has
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital Pigment
Large Silver Gelatin Photograph Russian USSR Soviet Parade Yuri Gagarin Photo
By Samariy Gurariy
Located in Surfside, FL
estate of photographer Samariy Gurariy.
Samariy Gurariy (1916 - 1998) was a Soviet Union
Category
20th Century Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Large Silver Gelatin Photograph Russian USSR Soviet Parade Yuri Gagarin Photo
By Samariy Gurariy
Located in Surfside, FL
estate of photographer Samariy Gurariy.
Samariy Gurariy (1916 - 1998) was a Soviet Union
Category
20th Century Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
David Burdeny - Red Wall, Peterhof, Russia, Photography 2015, Printed After
By David Burdeny
Located in Greenwich, CT
-hours access to the subway stations, and his images Soviet-era stations, whose ornate designs and
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, Paper, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Inkjet, Digital, Pigm...
David Burdeny - Yusopf Theatre Curtain, Russia, Photography 2015, Printed After
By David Burdeny
Located in Greenwich, CT
-hours access to the subway stations, and his images Soviet-era stations, whose ornate designs and
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pigment, C Prin...
Winter Red, Catherine Palace, Pushkin, Russia, Photography 2015, Printed After
By David Burdeny
Located in Greenwich, CT
-hours access to the subway stations, and his images Soviet-era stations, whose ornate designs and
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, Paper, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Inkjet, Digital, C Pr...
Jimmy Nelson - I 106 // Chukotka, Russia, Photography 2012, Printed After
By Jimmy Nelson
Located in Greenwich, CT
troops. Their environment and traditional culture endured destruction under Soviet rule, by weapon
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital Pigment
Jimmy Nelson - I 107 // I Chukotka, Russia, Photography 2012, Printed After
By Jimmy Nelson
Located in Greenwich, CT
troops. Their environment and traditional culture endured destruction under Soviet rule, by weapon
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital Pigment
Sokol Metro Station, Moscow, Russia, Photography 2015, Printed After
By David Burdeny
Located in Greenwich, CT
-hours access to the subway stations, and his images Soviet-era stations, whose ornate designs and
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, Paper, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Inkjet, Digital, C Pr...
Early Brian McKee Original Photography "Castle View", Afghanistan, 2002 Ed. 1/5
Located in East Hampton, NY
This early original photography by the late Brian McKee (1977-2018) of a war-torn Castle in
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Photography
Materials
Aluminum
H 49.25 in W 63 in D 2 in
Concert Hall, Moscow, Russia, Black and White Photography during Glasnost
By Roberta Fineberg
Located in New york, NY
the end of communism in the Soviet Union.
The black-and-white image of musicians at a celebrated
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper, Photographic Film
Maya Plisetskaya, Russian Ballerina, Black and White Photography of Dancer
By Roberta Fineberg
Located in New york, NY
Drawn to street photography, Roberta Fineberg visited Moscow for extended periods in 1989-1990
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film
Still life with Decanter and Watch
By Boris Smelov
Located in New York, NY
verso. Leningrad, Gelatin Silver print
14 1/2 x 9 5/8"
Ref: Changing Reality, Recent Soviet
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Russian Samizdat Art Conceptual Compass Sculpture Assemblage Gerlovin, Gerlovina
Located in Surfside, FL
Soviet Union, described in their book Russian Samizdat Art. Based on a play of paradoxes, their work is
Category
1980s Conceptual Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Russian Samizdat Art Conceptual Photo Sculpture Assemblage Gerlovin & Gerlovina
Located in Surfside, FL
Valeriy Gerlovin were founding members of the underground conceptual movement Samizdat in the Soviet Union
Category
1980s Conceptual Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
"Varosha 3" by Dimitri Bourriau, 59 x 39 in, 2023
By Dimitri Bourriau
Located in Paris, France
in the footsteps of the Soviet Buran spacecraft program, in Baikonur (Kazakhstan), allowing him to be
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital
David Burdeny-Blue Drawing Room, Catherine Palace, Pushkin, 2018, Printed After
By David Burdeny
Located in Greenwich, CT
images Soviet-era stations, whose ornate designs and realist artwork were meant to reflect the socialist
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, Paper, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Inkjet, Digital, C Pr...
David Burdeny - Yusopf Theatre (Czar Box), Russia, 2018, Printed After
By David Burdeny
Located in Greenwich, CT
images Soviet-era stations, whose ornate designs and realist artwork were meant to reflect the socialist
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, Paper, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Inkjet, Digital, C Pr...
David Burdeny - Taganskaya Metro Station, Moscow, Russia, 2015, Printed After
By David Burdeny
Located in Greenwich, CT
-hours access to the subway stations, and his images Soviet-era stations, whose ornate designs and
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pigment, C Prin...
David Burdeny-Novoslobodskaya Metro Station, Moscow, Russia, 2015, Printed After
By David Burdeny
Located in Greenwich, CT
-hours access to the subway stations, and his images Soviet-era stations, whose ornate designs and
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pigment, C Prin...
David Burdeny-Amber Room, Catherine Palace, Pushkin, Russia, 2015, Printed After
By David Burdeny
Located in Greenwich, CT
-hours access to the subway stations, and his images Soviet-era stations, whose ornate designs and
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pigment, C Prin...
Russian Samizdat Art Pioneers Conceptual Photo Photograph Gerlovin & Gerlovina
Located in Surfside, FL
Valeriy Gerlovin were founding members of the underground conceptual movement Samizdat in the Soviet Union
Category
1990s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Wall - Wrapped Roman Wall by Christo - 1974
By Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Located in Roma, IT
Soviet Socialist Realism, a government-mandated style of artistic production that was developed in the
Category
1970s Land Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogravure
H 19.69 in W 27.56 in D 0.08 in
Happy New Year, 1980 Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Emulsion Print Photograph
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Surfside, FL
Foundation grant for photographic work on La Lucha/The Struggle
2001 Pew Fellowship in Photography
2001
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jorge’s Kitchen by Barry Cawston. 90 x 75cm C-type photographic print only
By Barry Cawston
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Soviet-era fridge and an American Singer sewing machine as found in Jorge’s kitchen.
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The Spaces
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Color Photography
Materials
C Print
H 29.53 in W 35.44 in D 0.04 in
Jorge’s Kitchen by Barry Cawston. 120 x 100cm C-type photographic print Only
By Barry Cawston
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Soviet-era fridge and an American Singer sewing machine as found in Jorge’s kitchen.
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The Spaces
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Color Photography
Materials
C Print
H 39.38 in W 47.25 in D 0.04 in
Jorge’s Kitchen by Barry Cawston. 90 x 75cm photo with Acrylic Face Mount
By Barry Cawston
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Soviet-era fridge and an American Singer sewing machine as found in Jorge’s kitchen.
–
The Spaces
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper
H 29.53 in W 35.44 in D 0.79 in
Jorge’s Kitchen by Barry Cawston. 120 x 100cm photo with Acrylic Face Mount
By Barry Cawston
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Soviet-era fridge and an American Singer sewing machine as found in Jorge’s kitchen.
–
The Spaces
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
H 39.38 in W 47.25 in D 0.79 in
Jorge’s Kitchen by Barry Cawston. 90 x 75cm photograph. Mounted to Aluminium
By Barry Cawston
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Soviet-era fridge and an American Singer sewing machine as found in Jorge’s kitchen.
–
The Spaces
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
H 29.53 in W 35.44 in D 0.79 in
Birds - lenticular photo, white, sky-blue, black
By Alec Malyshev
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
making his artworks using expired film supplies as well old Soviet and European cameras for more than 10
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Lenticular
Architectural Color Pool Photo: Hotel with Blue Moon-like Sphere, White Frame
By Anna Dobrovolskaya-Mints
Located in London, GB
forgotten lives. Growing up in Post-Soviet Russia, Dobrovolskaya-Mints discovered the uncanny in abandoned
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
H 43.31 in W 63 in D 1.58 in
Hannes Messemer's Autographed Portrait - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
experienced as a soldier sent to Stalingrad for punishment, and then as a prisoner of the Soviet.
He
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Brightly Colored Contemporary Fine Art Photograph of India
By Steve McCurry
Located in NEW YORK, NY
career. As the Soviet-Afghan war commenced and Western journalists were prohibited from entering
Category
1990s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Fine Art Photograph of Jodhpur, India's Blue City
By Steve McCurry
Located in NEW YORK, NY
astonishing career. As the Soviet-Afghan war commenced and Western journalists were prohibited from entering
Category
1990s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Le Chien de les Frigos - lenticular photo, graffiti in pink, red, white, blue, black
By Alec Malyshev
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Malyshev is making his art works using expired film(photo) supplies as well old Soviet and European cameras
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Lenticular
Photograph of Camels Silhouetted Against a Bright Orange Oil Fire in Kuwait
By Steve McCurry
Located in NEW YORK, NY
embarked on what were to become the formative years of his astonishing career. As the Soviet-Afghan war
Category
1990s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Fine Art Photograph of a Figure Running on the Beach at Sunrise in Brazil
By Steve McCurry
Located in NEW YORK, NY
were to become the formative years of his astonishing career. As the Soviet-Afghan war commenced and
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Fine Art Photograph of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India
By Steve McCurry
Located in NEW YORK, NY
were to become the formative years of his astonishing career. As the Soviet-Afghan war commenced and
Category
1990s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Autograph Portrait of Hannes Messemer - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
to Stalingrad for punishment, and then as a prisoner of the Soviet.
He collaborated in two films
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Paper
H 5.52 in W 3.55 in D 0.04 in
Abstract Photograph Post USSR Russian Avant Garde Solarized Photo Non Conformist
By Valentin Samarine
Located in Surfside, FL
Valentin Samarine started doing abstract painting in the 60s, and abstract photography in the 70s
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Nikita Khrushchev in Profile, Mid Century Black & White Photograph
By Yousuf Karsh
Located in Soquel, CA
Premier of the Soviet Union, by Yousuf Karsh from his 1963 sitting (Armenian, 1908-2002). This piece is
Category
1960s Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Yousuf KarshPortrait of Nikita Khrushchev in Profile, Mid Century Black & White Photograph , c. 1963
H 9.25 in W 6.25 in D 0.03 in
Rudolf Nureyev photographed for 'After Dark', signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
13 x 19" archival pigment color print of Rudolf Nureyev, Soviet-born dancer of ballet and modern
Category
1970s Pop Art Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
H 19 in W 13 in D 0.03 in
Rudolf Nureyev photographed for 'After Dark', 1975. Signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
13 x 19" archival pigment color print of Rudolf Nureyev, Soviet-born dancer of ballet and modern
Category
1970s Pop Art Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
H 19 in W 13 in D 0.03 in
Rudolf Nureyev photographed for 'After Dark', 1975. Signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
13 x 19" archival pigment color print of Rudolf Nureyev, Soviet-born dancer of ballet and modern
Category
1970s Pop Art Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
H 19 in W 13 in D 0.03 in
Rudolf Nureyev photographed for 'After Dark', signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
13 x 19" archival pigment color print of Rudolf Nureyev, Soviet-born dancer of ballet and modern
Category
1970s Pop Art Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
H 19 in W 13 in D 0.03 in
Rudolf Nureyev photographed for 'After Dark', signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
13 x 19" archival pigment color print of Rudolf Nureyev, Soviet-born dancer of ballet and modern
Category
1970s Pop Art Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
H 19 in W 13 in D 0.03 in
North of the Wall
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
. Only six people now live there full time, but it remains a ghostly reminder of the USSR. Soviet culture
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Titan II Base
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
.
Following the Soviet Union’s detonation of its first thermonuclear bomb in 1953, the United States began
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
David Burdeny - Aeroport Metro Station, Moscow, Russia, 2015, Printed After
By David Burdeny
Located in Greenwich, CT
-hours access to the subway stations, and his images Soviet-era stations, whose ornate designs and
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pigment, C Prin...
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