Real FSU Hardcore

[Jocko]

http://www.russianphotographs.com/exhibitions/index.html

Enjoy!

Ian

 

[rxmd]

Thanks, that's an interesting site. Pity they don't have larger versions.

Philipp

 

[Dracotype]

A very beautiful collection. Shows you what FSU can do!

Drew

 

[rxmd]

Actually most of these probably weren't shot on FSU cameras.

 

[Jocko]

Actually most of these probably weren't shot on FSU cameras.

It ain't the camera, it's the soul that counts!

Cheers, Ian

 

[jan normandale]

Ian, this is really interesting stuff! I'm bookmarking it now.

 

[Jocko]

Ian, this is really interesting stuff! I'm bookmarking it now.

Likewise Jan: it's a remarjkable collection, the moreso as the great majority of images are completely unfamiliar.

In any collection like this one comes across all sorts of extraordinary things - I've just stumbled on the following, one of those photographs that makes you go "what!" - an image one might think belonged in an implausible comic strip... but no! http://www.schicklerart.com/auto_exh/OLander_001?id=12366919&from=3 Just imagine what that weighed....

And people say Zenits are heavy!

Cheers, Ian

 

[pesphoto]

Great find. Very ineresting stuff to see.

 

[Michael I.]

http://www.borodulincollection.com/index_eng.html

 

[garythegit]

great stuff! yeah on the FSU point, most of the war photographers actually used leicas as show by many photos of them wearing them around their necks! even seen one with a pre war contax with multifinder! soon to be the kiev!

 

[Jocko]

great stuff! yeah on the FSU point, most of the war photographers actually used leicas as show by many photos of them wearing them around their necks! even seen one with a pre war contax with multifinder! soon to be the kiev!

I wonder if we're thinking of the same photo, Gary - there was a book on Soviet war photography published in the 70s, with an introduction by AJP Taylor: one of the editions included biographies of the photographers. There was a striking picture of one using a Contax, a column of POWs moving away behind him. I saw the book in 1985 and needless to say, have forgotten who it was. Age is a terrible thing!

Thank you Michael for another fascinating site!

Cheers, Ian

 

[Michael I.]

I have a couple of sites on soviet war reporters and their equipment (some leicas lots of feds)but they're in russian and it's too much to translate so babelfish away:

http://www.foto-video.ru/tech/review/war_phototehnik

http://www.foto-video.ru/art/portfolio/photog_war