Ukraine List

I know this topic isn’t all that timely with the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident ten months ago, but here is some interesting poster art that came out for the anniversary of the accident.
The first two pieces were taken from plakaty, which hosts a series of posters from various Moscow graphic designers. The […]

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I have used a couple of photos from this photographer previously, so I thought I would post a few more photos that I liked from his sight, Blot of Light. You can access the photo blog directly from the link or use this site’s blogroll.

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“If it is necessary to choose between truth and beauty, I’ll choose beauty.” — Olexandr Dovzhenko
I’ve recently been intrigued by the Ukrainian filmmaker, Olexandr Dovzhenko. He was active from the 1920s into the 1940s and is often grouped in the trio of great Soviet filmmakers along with Eisenstein and Pudovkin. The most known of Dovzhenko’s […]

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The Ukrainian-American illustrator, Yaroslava Surmach-Mills, was born in New York in 1925. Her father, Myron Surmach, was born in Galicia in 1893, but later emigrated to Pennsylvania and then to New York. In America Myron became involved in everything from music, publishing, and books and started a Ukrainian book and music store called Surma that […]

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