WINDOW SHOPPING THROUGH THE IRON CURTAIN

Window-Shopping through the Iron Curtain presents a selection of more than 100 images of shop windows shot by David Hlynsky during f our trips taken between 1986 and 1990 to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Moscow. Using a Ha sselblad camera, Hlynsky captured the slow, routine moments of daily life on the streets and in the shop windows of crumbling Commun ist countries. The resulting images could be still-lifes representing the intersection of a Communist ideology and a consumerist, Ca pitalist...[Read more]