RUSSIAN SELF-PORTRAITS (1977) rineke dijkstra including work from Kathy Acker

including work from Kathy Acker

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Avedon would spend the next six years travelling to hundreds of twons across 17 states: Arizona

By mixing textures and sensuality

RUSSIAN SELF-PORTRAITS (1977) rineke dijkstra including work from Kathy AckerThe 1977 first edition of Russian Self Portraits. In the 50s the Americans would host Cultural exchange programmes ranging from technology to art with former or current communist countries like Russia. The photography exhibition where this series was created was in Kiev, the future capital of Ukraine following their independence in 1991. The brilliant self captured portraits in this book show a connection through photography that was difficult at the