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Call Number:

PH-00259

Collection Name:

The Soviets Exhibition Photography Collection

No. of Items:

162 items

Span Dates:

1980-1990

Description:

The Soviets Exhibition Photography Collection is comprised of 162 silver-gelatin prints by various artists from the former Soviet Union. The images, which date between circa 1980 and 1990, are of architecture, monasteries, street-life, portraits, punk-rock fans in Siberia, rural people and places, parks, the military, and the elderly. This collection was donated by Bill Wright for the exhibition of the same name held at the Ransom Center in 1990-1991.

The prints are broken down in the following manner:

Accession # 994:0006: Box # Photographer
0001-0003 7 Gennadi Bodorov
0004-0008 7 Oleg Deriglazov
0009-0024 1 Oleg Deriglazov
0025-0026 7 Vladimir Filanov
0027 7 Alec Gakulovitch
0028-0031 6 Sergei Gitman
0032-0036 1 Sergei Gitman
0037-0044 2 Sergei Gitman
0045-0054 5 Sergei Gitman
0055-0062 7 Eduard Gladkov
0063-0075 2 Yuri Rybtchinski
0076-0086 3 Yuri Rybtchinski
0087-0089 5 Eduard Gladkov
0090-0099 3 Eduard Gladkov
0100-0102 4 Eduard Gladkov
0103-0104 7 Alexander Lapin
0104A 7 Adiege Niyazov
0105-0111 7 Yevgeni Pavlov
0112-0115 7 Roman Piotkova
0116-0119 4 Roman Piotkova
0120-0131 8 Yuri Rybtchinski
0132-0146A 8 Val Shchekoldin
0147-0156 4 Val Shchekoldin
0157 8 Vyacheslov Oernovetsky
0158-0160 8 Alexander Orophimov

Accession No(s):

994:0006:0001-0104, 0104A, 0105-0146, 0146A, 0147-0160; 994:0006:0001-0160 -- Gift of Bill Wright, 1994 (G10629).

Location(s):

13 osb (The Soviets Exhibition Boxes 1-13)
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