In June 21, 1993 issue of Time, the magazine published a cover story on the rise of prostitution around the world. Questions were being asked about the authenticity of some photographs in Moscow.
Tag: Russia
Editorial: On Olympics, Sochi 2014, and Political Games
Ok. You know what I am going to rant about here. This: Russia’s grand vanity oligarchic […]
How do you tell a lie with photos?
Clever digital manipulation is not necessary — strategic release of photos often sufficed — to create […]
Bloody Sunday, 1905
The 20th Century opened with Russia slowly teetering towards disenchantment and chaos. Emancipation of serfs in 1861 […]
Yeltsin dances
On June 10th 1996, Alexander Zemlianichenko captured in a photo that would eventually win a […]
Lenin in Stockholm
To the Russians, Vladimir Ulyanov was already a living symbol in 1917. Ulyanov – now […]
Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev (1937 – 2010)
Along with Boris Yeltsin standing on a tank, it was one of the iconic images […]
The Conflict on the Ussuri
For a few unsettling months in 1969, tensions between two nuclear powers reached fever-pinch. On […]
The Execution of Masha Bruskina
In October 1941, at Minsk, Belorussia (then occupied by the Nazis), a 17-year-old Soviet Jewish partisan Masha […]
The 40th anniversary of the Russian revolution
Born in Paris to Russian parents, and educated in America, Elliott Erwitt took up photography […]