TY - BOOK ID - 85631596 TI - Soviet signs and street relics PY - 2020 SN - 1916218407 9781916218406 PB - London Fuel DB - UniCat KW - Signs and symbols for travelers KW - Signs and signboards KW - Public art KW - 77.092.07 KW - 73(47) KW - Beeldhouwkunst ; in en op openbare plaatsen KW - Monumentale sculpturen KW - Monumenten ; beelden buiten ; Oostbloklanden KW - Civic art KW - Art KW - Travel KW - Guide signs KW - Guide-posts KW - Guideposts KW - Sign-boards KW - Signage KW - Signboards KW - Signs KW - Signs (Advertising) KW - Signs and sign-boards KW - Advertising KW - Visual communication KW - Bill-posting KW - Posters KW - Fotografen A - Z KW - Beeldhouwkunst ; Rusland KW - Former Soviet republics KW - Soviet Union. KW - CIS countries KW - Commonwealth of Independent States countries KW - Ex-Soviet republics KW - Ex-Soviet states KW - Former Soviet states KW - New Independent States (Former Soviet republics) KW - Newly Independent States (Former Soviet republics) KW - NIS (Former Soviet republics) KW - Советский Союз KW - Ber. ha-M. KW - Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich KW - ZSRR KW - Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Sowieckich KW - ZSRS KW - Szovjetunió KW - TSRS KW - Tarybų Socialistinių Respublikų Sąjunga KW - SRSR KW - Soi︠u︡z Radi︠a︡nsʹkykh Sot︠s︡ialistychnykh Respublik KW - SSSR KW - Soi︠u︡z Sovetskikh Sot︠s︡ialisticheskikh Respublik KW - UdSSR KW - Shūravī KW - Ittiḥād-i Jamāhīr-i Ishtirākīyah-i Shūrāʼīyah KW - Russia (1923- U.S.S.R.) KW - Sovetskiy Soyuz KW - Soyuz SSR KW - Sovetskiĭ Soi︠u︡z KW - Soi︠u︡z SSR KW - Uni Sovjet KW - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics KW - USSR KW - SSṚM KW - Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Ṛespublikaneri Miutʻyun KW - SSHM KW - Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Hanrapetutʻyunneri Miutʻyun KW - URSS KW - Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas KW - Berit ha-Moʻatsot KW - Rusyah KW - Ittiḥād al-Sūfiyītī KW - Rusiyah KW - Rusland KW - Soṿet-Rusland KW - Uni Soviet KW - Union soviétique KW - Zȯvlȯlt Kholboot Uls KW - Związek Radziecki KW - ESSD KW - Sahaphāp Sōwīat KW - KhSHM KW - SSR Kavširi KW - Russland KW - SNTL KW - PSRS KW - Su-lien KW - Sobhieṭ Ẏuniẏana KW - FSSR KW - Unione Sovietica KW - Ittiḥād-i Shūravī KW - Soviyat Yūniyan KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - Regional documentation KW - History of civilization KW - guideposts KW - public art KW - markers [monuments] KW - political art KW - Russia KW - Soviet Union UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85631596 AB - French photographer Jason Guilbeau has used Google Street View to virtually navigate Russia and the former USSR, searching for examples of a forgotten Soviet empire. The subjects of these unlikely photographs are incidental to the purpose of Google Street View - captured by serendipity, rather than design, they are accorded a common vernacular. Once found, he strips the images of their practical use by removing the navigational markers, transforming them to his own vision. From remote rural roadsides to densely populated cities, the photographs reveal traces of history in plain sight: a Brutalist hammer and sickle stands in a remote field; a jet fighter is anchored to the ground by its concrete exhaust plume; a skeletal tractor sits on a cast-iron platform; an village sign resembles a Constructivist sculpture. Passers by seem oblivious to these objects. Relinquished by the present they have become part of the composition of everyday life, too distant in time and too ubiquitous in nature to be recorded by anything other than an indiscriminate automaton. This collection of photographs portrays a surreal reality: it is a document of a vanishing era, captured by an omniscient technology that is continually deleting and replenishing itself - an inadvertent definition of Russia today. ER -