Disorientations

Fülszöveg

After decades of paralysis, the face of an entire continent is changing. From the Elbe to the Amur, established regimes and eternal truths are crumbling. Photographers from the Bilderberg agency set off to explore this crucible of history, roaming the length and breadth of Central and Eastern Europe to keep pace with events. They found pulsating nightclubs in Moscow and the last of the gulags in deepest Siberia; they lived with wolf-hunters in the Arctic Circle and the 'centenarians' in Bulgaria's Rhodope mountains; they entered the orphanages of Romania and the 'Zone' around Chernobyl.
Incisive captions by Alexander Smoltczyl( and an essay by dramatist Pavel Kohout, together with an afterword by Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, supply the stories behind these often bizarre images. Testaments to a voyage of discovery in an unlcnown - but still very human - world, they capture the beauty, ugliness; humour and pathos of an old order dying and a new one struggling to be born.
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Fülszöveg

After decades of paralysis, the face of an entire continent is changing. From the Elbe to the Amur, established regimes and eternal truths are crumbling. Photographers from the Bilderberg agency set off to explore this crucible of history, roaming the length and breadth of Central and Eastern Europe to keep pace with events. They found pulsating nightclubs in Moscow and the last of the gulags in deepest Siberia; they lived with wolf-hunters in the Arctic Circle and the 'centenarians' in Bulgaria's Rhodope mountains; they entered the orphanages of Romania and the 'Zone' around Chernobyl.
Incisive captions by Alexander Smoltczyl( and an essay by dramatist Pavel Kohout, together with an afterword by Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, supply the stories behind these often bizarre images. Testaments to a voyage of discovery in an unlcnown - but still very human - world, they capture the beauty, ugliness; humour and pathos of an old order dying and a new one struggling to be born.
Pavel Kohout, renowned Czech playwright and co-founder of the human rights group Charter 77, now devotes himself eptirely to writing after a long career of political activism. Alexander A. Smoltczyk is Eastern European correspondent for a number of German newspapers and magazines. Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, celebrated German news presenter and foreign correspondent, was first to televise the breaching of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.
With 89 colour illustrations selected from the work of 13 Bilderberg photographers
THAMES AND HUDSON
30 BLOOMSBURY STREET, LONDON WCIB 3QP
Cover photograph by Andrej Reiser
Printed in Switzerland Vissza