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