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Off With The Pixies
Whilst I was looking for information on an astronomical topic, I came across an interesting website.
Alexey Sergeev teaches in the Physics department of a university in Texas, but as a student and scientist in the USSR he was enthusiastic photographer. No one will pretend his ablack and whites are the greatest art pictures in the world: they are snapshots from daily life, and interesting exactly because of this. My bet is they were made with a Smena or similar [which is why I shouldn't bet - it was a Zenit E!]. Many depict academia - conferences, jaunts, teachers and more - often with sly humour: Thus we find professor "T. A. Vartanyan at a cabbage field of Detskoselskiy Collective Farm during seasonal work, Oct. 1980" showing all the characteristic hearty enthusiasm of an academic facing manual labour - http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/bw/soi/01.jpg
Contributors to the recent thread on rude policemen and candid photography might like to imagine snapping Colonel Bagin, not one of nature's little sunbeams, one imagines. Major Lavrik, on the other hand, looks as if he'd sooner have a smoke behind a tank 🙂 - http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/bw/fizfak/thumbnai.htm#military
And in all, these are interesting little insights into the USSR in its final years of "Meta-Communism" 🙂 http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/bw/confs/uzhgorod/10.jpg
The photographer is also a passionate picture taker in his new American home.
Entry to the full site here: http://www.asergeev.com/index.htm
Cheers, Ian
Alexey Sergeev teaches in the Physics department of a university in Texas, but as a student and scientist in the USSR he was enthusiastic photographer. No one will pretend his ablack and whites are the greatest art pictures in the world: they are snapshots from daily life, and interesting exactly because of this. My bet is they were made with a Smena or similar [which is why I shouldn't bet - it was a Zenit E!]. Many depict academia - conferences, jaunts, teachers and more - often with sly humour: Thus we find professor "T. A. Vartanyan at a cabbage field of Detskoselskiy Collective Farm during seasonal work, Oct. 1980" showing all the characteristic hearty enthusiasm of an academic facing manual labour - http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/bw/soi/01.jpg
Contributors to the recent thread on rude policemen and candid photography might like to imagine snapping Colonel Bagin, not one of nature's little sunbeams, one imagines. Major Lavrik, on the other hand, looks as if he'd sooner have a smoke behind a tank 🙂 - http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/bw/fizfak/thumbnai.htm#military
And in all, these are interesting little insights into the USSR in its final years of "Meta-Communism" 🙂 http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/bw/confs/uzhgorod/10.jpg
The photographer is also a passionate picture taker in his new American home.
Entry to the full site here: http://www.asergeev.com/index.htm
Cheers, Ian
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