#Soviet Bus Stops

[artghutry]

SOVIET BUS STOPS

Architectural forms

Photographed by Christopher Herwing

#COLOSSAL #Christopher Herwing #artist photography #Soviet Bus Stops #soviet art #art ghutry #xpuigc

[socarchlithuania]

Leliūnai. 2023

[dare-g]

Soviet Bus Stops (2022)

[protoindoeuropean]

two Soviet-era bus stops on the road from Kegen to Saryjaz, Kazakhstan [map]

[subnitida]

Nanuka Zaalishvili

Mosaic details of the Soviet Bus Stop in the Ghaniri (ღანირი) Village. Architect/Year unknown.

[nevver]

Gimme shelter, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg

[thecatranimal]

Choices

[oladiysyablokom]

[muzantropic]

Bus stop in the shape of a cap. Kyrgyzstan Photo: Christopher Herwig

[pam3pr]

soviet bus stop series - kazakstahn - 2004

[blech]

Broken Slide, Moscow, 1982 © Boris Savelev, via Photo Espana.

When perestroika came about, dealers in the United States and Europe travelled to Moscow and Saint Petersburg in the quest for ‘authentic voices’. Secret City: Photographs of the USSR by Boris Savelev (Thames and Hudson, 1988) was the outcome of this effort and became the first monograph in the West devoted to an unofficial photographer from the now-defunct USSR. Now this exhibition is presented as a broader retrospective on Savelev up to today. It surveys the six decades in which he captured the everyday making—not only taking—photographs: from his beginnings in black and white with his Iskra 6×6 and his Leica, including his colour pictures in the 1980s with both Soviet Owarchrome and Western Kodachrome film, until his incorporation of digital technology

From Time Magazine, covering an earlier exhibition at the Michael Hoppen gallery:

Savelev, who spent his working life in the former Soviet Union as a rocket engineer, brings the same methodical eye to his photography and printing process.

Personally I like this image for its small burst of colour in a nearly monochrome landscape, done without the trickery that's usually required for that effect. His other works are well worth a look, too.

[13thpythagoras]

you also have to factor in time for:

1.) a bus to drive by you while you wait at the stop

2.) once you do get on the next bus, the bus driver goes two stops and then kicks everyone off mid-route declaring himself on break and off duty

3.) the next bus driver will of course drive by you again as you wave from the stop

thank god for american public transit !!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[socarchlithuania]

Sariai. 2025

[dare-g]

Soviet Bus Stops (2022)

[kaul1]

pietura

[subnitida]

Soviet bus stop in Natakhtari, Georgia

Giorgi Chakhava (architect), 1983