Damon Murray - Böcker

Containing over 140 exclusive photographs ranging from private homes to football stadia across every region of the country, Brutalist Italy is the first publication to focus entirely on this subject. Best books of 2023 (Architecture and Design) - ...

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Photographer Christopher Herwig has covered more than 30,000km by car, bike, bus and taxi in 13 former Soviet countries discovering and documenting these unexpected treasures of modern art. From the shores of the Black Sea to the endless Kazakh st...

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Stunning photographs of Soviet Metro Stations from across the former states of the USSR and Russia itself, many of which have never previously been documented For us, said Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs, there was something supernatural about th...

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Audio Erotica is a perfectly pitched visual anthem to home audio entertainment. Using sales brochures from the 1950-1980s, a symphony of graphic nostalgia tracks the technological progress of our listening pleasure. Remember roller-skating wearing...

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The first ever spomenik guidebook, with over 75 examples alongside map references and information on why they exist and who built them. Spomenik the Serbo-Croat/Slovenian word for monument refers to a series of memorials built in Titos Republic of...

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"Drawings from the Gulag" consists of 130 drawings by Danzig Baldaev describing the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaevs father, a respected ethnographer, taught him techniques to rec...

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As seen in The Guardian, House & Garden and designboom Dachas countryside houses, built from wood are largely unknown outside the post-Soviet states. Photographer Fyodor Savintsev has documented these important architectural forms, creating a ...

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'Each of these objects is personal, and has a personality, a story. In an age of in-built obsolescence theres something very radical in that. - Owen Hatherley, Tribune magazine A reprinted edition of the highly popular book from 2006. Home Ma...

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A complete standard Western deck of 52 playing cards and 2 jokers, making them suitable for any card game. This deck of cards has been put together using four different sets (one for each suit) made by Russian criminals in prisons during the 1980s...

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A follow-up to "Soviet Bus Stops", this includes photos of bus stops in Russia, Crimea, Georgia and Ukraine. Edited by Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell. 160 illustrations.

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A fantastic collection of Soviet Asian architecture, many photographed here for the first time Soviet Asia explores the Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia. Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego crossed the former Soviet...

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Following the success of his first novel The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, artist Jake Chapman now focuses his malice on the calloused underbelly of literature itself. In Memoirs of MyWriters Block, Chapman haunts the shady world of the professi...

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Tracey Emin: My Photo Album is a journey through the artists life using photographs from her personal collection. Edited from the albums she has kept from an early age, this visual autobiography contains some amazing images: Tracey sharing a pram ...

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Soviets features unpublished drawings from the archive of Danzig Baldaev. They satirize the Communist Party system, exposing the absurdities of Soviet life from drinking (Alcoholics and Shirkers) to the Afghan war (The Shady Enterprise), via disse...

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A companion volume to the bestselling "Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia" series, with in-depth descriptions and stories surrounding Russian criminal tattoos. 186 illustrations.

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Provides a unique insight into Soviet cuisine, with authentic recipes and vintage illustrations from cookbooks of Russia's communist period. 60 recipes, 85 illustrations.

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A unique insight into the design of hand-made Soviet prison playing cards and their link to the Russian criminal underworld. This book reveals the importance of playing cards in Russian criminal culture. The hand-made decks are beautiful works of ...

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A colouring book that marks the first publication of the graphic works of Russian artist Amanita.

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A collection of unique, rare and previously unpublished Soviet anti-alcohol posters. With examples from the 1960s through to the 1980s, with a focus on those produced during the Mikhail Gorbachev campaign initiated in 1985.

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A photographic story of previously overlooked Soviet Sanatoriums and their treatments, in locations ranging from Armenia to Uzbekistan. Edited by Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell.

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A collection of previously unpublished postcards from the former Eastern Bloc sinister, funny, poignant and surreal, they depict the social and architectural values of the period. Brutal concrete hotels, futurist TV towers, heroic worker statues t...

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The first book to tell the visual story of the USSRs war against religion of all denominations, from the 1917 revolution to its fall in 1991 Weve finished the earthly tsars and were coming for the heavenly ones!. Thus spoke the Soviet Unions first...

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A new expanded edition of this must-have book for all graphic designers In 1962, when Peter Dixon joined the Sainsburys Design Studio, a remarkable revolution in packaging design began. The supermarket was developing its distinctive range of Own L...

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A nostalgia trip through the sweet wrappers of our childhoods: a massive, magical blast from our pasts all in one beautiful graphic book This is a very exciting book crammed full of the sweetest memories of all a favourite gum, those addictive che...

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Charles Holden's designs for the London Underground from the mid-1920s to the outbreak of World War II represent a high point of transport architecture and Modernist design in Britain. His collaboration with Frank Pick, the Chief Executive of...

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The most comprehensive photographic document of the London council estate, with fascinating images from every London borough and the City, featuring some 300 estates built between 1947 and 1981. Why are some London council estates considered notor...

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This vivid and fascinating collection of propaganda spans over a century a visual feast illustrating how persuasion, manipulation and fear were used to influence populations around the world. Do you know what propaganda looks like? A mural showing...

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An incredible collection of images of chess players from the last 130 years, showcasing the unique relationship between chess and culture, featuring world famous actors, artists, politicians and musicians. You dont have to play chess to appreciate...

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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 Googl...

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In recent years Russian cities have visibly changed. The architectural heritage of the Soviet period has not been fully acknowledged. As a result many unique modernist buildings have been destroyed or changed beyond recognition. Russian photograph...

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