| September 8, 2003 |
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Windows Through the Curtain
Between  1986 and 1990, David Hlynsky took thousands of pictures on the streets of Communist Europe, and a selection of his work is presented here. Lacking the garish advertisements of the West, the stark Soviet streets stand like bleak modern art waiting for interpretation. Three meager loaves in a bakery window recall food shortages, but plump fruits in a well-stocked grocery shine with Soviet pride. A Bulgarian men's "fashion shop" in 1989 evokes a dated feeling, while in Poland, a merry neon teapot puffs steam in obscurity. In Yugoslavia, a nightclub window is decked with tinsel, and in Czechoslovakia, a question-mark pastry beckons from the sign over a coffee shop. These sidewalk snapshots present an engrossing and unusual view of the last days of the Cold War. (in Photojournalism) |
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