Moscow 1980 Olympic Games Venues and a Rolleiflex

[SolaresLarrave]

HERE is nteresting piece from Wired magazine, about a photographer and her work documenting the current status of the places that hosted the Moscow 1980 Olympic games.

If not the images, the story puts things in perspective. Enjoy!

 

[oftheherd]

Thanks Francisco. Great photos and an interesting take of Olympic preparation and aftermath.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

The story is BS for foreners. She doesn't likes how building looks like, who cares, but at Moscow which population is what Greeze twice, most of the building shown are in use.
People like me called people like her as limitchiks. This word is as old as Moscow Olimpics and some of it meaning is how people moved into the Capital but have no felling for Moscow as someone like me who was born in this city.
It is like me writing about St.Petrburg she moved form as ruins city with pictures included.

 

[charjohncarter]

Hey, thanks for those photos. I love old photos (or semi old photos). These are very iconic.

 

[Wulfthari]

I'm a little bit disappointed because these pics weren't taken in 1980, however I've a soft spot for Soviet Architecture, they were trying to invent something new, today there is just ugliness.

 

[froyd]

Nice pictures, awfully superficial summary fo the project by Wired.

I like the mood conveyed by many of the images, and I felt like photographer treated the subject with respect and admiration. I was surprised to read that her thesis was that the buildings represented "failed expectations". It's not what I got from the pictures alone.

 

[Huss]

Nice pics, but what is the story? Nothing happened. Everything is still being used.

"Tsayder found many still were used as sports venues, while others had been repurposed or were half-abandoned. "

Half abandoned? So half not abandoned. And any venue will look empty if it is not game day. Everything in these pics looks well maintained, and most even show athletic activity going on in them.