Jocko
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#militaryAnd 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.jpgThe 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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Pablito
coco frío
Thanks! These are a lot of fun. This is image is really powerful:
http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/bw/confs/rostov/12.jpg
http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/bw/confs/rostov/12.jpg
robin a
Well-known
Ian,I grew up in Princton and my son is nearing graduation from Texas A&M,this is like going home, flipping through his photos..........Robin
Sylvaticus
Established
Thanks Ian, I enjoyed that. Brings back memories of similar conferences in Tbilisi, Moscow and Tallinn.
fidget
Lemon magnet
Thanks Ian, quite a few interesting shots there. His website is quite something too, foating one's CV on the net is a bold thing to do.
Murray Kelly
Well-known
Not many repies Jocko, but it is just like a time trip for me. In the 50's getting pictures
of the lecuturers for the annual magazine was priority. I had an advantage. I worked at the local Kodak store part time (their family snap processing was done there) and I had a Minolta-16. I could raise that in a group and nobody would even notice. I still look at those snaps and am transported back 50 years.
Murray
Brisbane, Oz
of the lecuturers for the annual magazine was priority. I had an advantage. I worked at the local Kodak store part time (their family snap processing was done there) and I had a Minolta-16. I could raise that in a group and nobody would even notice. I still look at those snaps and am transported back 50 years.
Murray
Brisbane, Oz
payasam
a.k.a. Mukul Dube
What fun. Reminds me of my time in the academic world. I didn't take it seriously enough, alas, so might be able to dig up a few amusing pictures.