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NARYN, KYRGYZSTAN - SEPTEMBER 2004 : Man getting a shave at the hair salon with its colorful interior.
by Christopher Herwig (source)
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soviet bus stops photographed by christopher herwig
"Architecture, like anything else during the Soviet period, was under strict centralized supervision. While art and grand monuments were expected to advance the state narrative of communism as paradise on earth, sometimes the benign bus stops were overlooked. As a result, hundreds of architecturally distinctive bus stops are now scattered across the former Soviet Republic. Built by individuals who decided to follow their own artistic urges, they found a way of expressing local and artistic ideas, in this small form. Their bus stops were built as quiet acts of creativity against overwhelming state control."
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#farafieldmb | Soviet Bus Stops - 📷 Christopher Herwig.
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Les arrêts de bus insolites de l'époque soviétique
Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/les-arrets-de-bus-insolites-de-lepoque-sovietique/
Les arrêts de bus insolites de l'époque soviétique
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Soviet Bus Stops (dir. Kristoffer Hegnsvad) x VIFF 2022.
Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig had a clear goal for his entirely earnest art project. He aimed to photograph as many unique bus stops from former Soviet Republics in the 1960-70s as possible before they disappear and record them as relics of another time. Unlike the usual Soviet Bloc architecture of blandly oppressive and utilitarian aesthetics, these unusual public fixtures were creatively audacious in their colourful whimsy going against the Communist doctrine. Hegnsvag and Herwig manage to capture an intersection of art, history, design, and politics sublimely by simply preserving the memory of these works as images like a sort of archival time capsule.
Screened at the 2022 Vancouver International Film Festival as part of the Portraits series and streaming through VIFF Connect until Oct. 9 (and screening at the VIFF Centre on Oct. 12).
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Photo by Christopher Herwig
"Soviet Bus Stops" published in 2015
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Bus Stop east of Aralsk, Kazakhstan, photo: Christopher Herwig
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Soviet Bus Stops Volume II
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Christopher Herwig
160x200 mm hardback
192 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9931911-8-3
Published in 2017
10% goes to the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal.
After the popular and critical success of his first book, Christopher Herwig has returned to the former Soviet Union to hunt for more Soviet Bus Stops. In this second volume, as well as discovering unexpected examples in the remotest areas of Georgia and Ukraine, Herwig turns his camera to Russia itself. Following exhaustive research, he drove 15,000 km from coast to coast across the largest country in the world, in pursuit of new variations of this singular architectural form.
A foreword by renowned architecture and culture critic Owen Hatherley, reveals new information on the origins of the Soviet bus stop. Examining the government policy that allowed these ‘small architectural forms’ to flourish, he explains how they reflected Soviet values, and how ultimately they remained – despite their incredible individuality – far-flung outposts of Soviet ideology.
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While the Moscow metro is known around the world, photographer Christopher Herwig is the first to take an interest in the numerous and architecturally remarkable bus stops from the Soviet era. Following his successful book Soviet Bus Stops (2015), this new edition: Soviet Bus Stops Volume II, gathers even more fantastic examples of these ostensibly insignificant functional buildings.
The bus stop is interesting in the sense that it is, a type of minimalist architecture that combines a minimum of protection from the weather with a minimum of comfort in the form of a seat. This book shows us how improbably creative and varied these basic requirements can be - from simple pavilions with colourful mosaics, to large sculptures whose protective function seems to be almost a by-product.
Only with the publication of this typological guide, which the photographer has spent a great deal of time compiling, has this phenomenon become visible. Here, this ‘banal’ curiosity has great value.
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Episode 188 - Transportation and Transit Non-Fiction
All aboard! This episode we’re discussing the non-fiction genre of Transportation and Transit! We talk trains, buses, bicycles, spaceships, and more!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Things We Read (or tried to…)
The Art of the Locomotive by Ken Boyd
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America by Michael Hiltzik
Ghost Train (four part podcast by Denver Public Radio)
Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth by Mark Ovenden
Transit Maps of the World: Expanded and Updated Edition of the World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth by Mark Ovenden
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles L. Marohn Jr.
Canadarm and Collaboration: How Canada’s Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds by Elizabeth Howell
Links between two cities: historic bridges between Ottawa and Hull by Lucien Brault.
Other Media We Mentioned
The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways by Mike Ashley
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Orient Express by Graham Greene
Maiden Railways by Asumiko Nakamura
Heaven's Design Team, Vol. 1 by Hebi-Zou, Tsuta Suzuki, and Tarako
For 2 Weeks, Switzerland Has A Rail Replacement Helicopter
Vancouver's Expo Line 1990 vs 2020
Mini Metro
Soviet Bus Stops by Christopher Herwig
There’s a documentary movie!
Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig
How To F#€k Up An Airport (five part podcast by Radio Spaetkauf)
Some YouTube channels and videos about trains and transport things:
CityNerd
Not Just Bikes
Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere)
Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is) (See the building Anna and Matthew used to live in!)
RMTransit
The Tim Traveller
This New LA Metro Station Should be PACKED - Here’s Why It’s Not
Denver’s Transit System is Problematic
Freight Trains: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
Links, Articles, and Things
Note to self: Make “derail” joke about conversation going off topic.
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Rail replacement bus service (Wikipedia)
Slow television (Wikipedia)
“It was popularised in the 2000s by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), beginning with the broadcast of a 7-hour train journey in 2009.”
Fort Collins Trolley
‘I am done’: Amid rider woes, is Ottawa’s transit system a victim of its own success?
Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow
12 Transit/Automotive/Planes/Trains/Boats books by BIPOC Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance by Mia Bay
Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin Hall
Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka
Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance by Adonia E. Lugo
Making a Chaputs: The Teachings and Responsibilities of a Canoe Maker by Joe Martin with Alan Hoover
Taxi!: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City by Biju Mathew
Crash Course: If You Want To Get Away With Murder Buy a Car by Woodrow Phoenix
Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It by Ganesh Sitaraman
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy A. Taylor
The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain by Dukesang Wong, translated by Wanda Joy Hoe
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christopher herwig's documentary uncovers the curious case of soviet bus stops
Soviet Bus Stops by Christopher Herwig
During a bike ride from London to St. Petersburg in 2002, Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig found himself fascinated by the unique architecture of Soviet-era bus stops that he came across. Setting himself the challenge of capturing a compelling photo every hour, he began discovering creatively designed bus stops along deserted road sections.
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Scenes of daily life in Kashgar, Xinjiang, September 2005, by Christopher Herwig (source)
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'Soviet Bus Stops' never get old! Now that there's a documentary film out on this project, we thought we'd repost some of the photos from Christopher Herwig's second volume in the series, published by @fuelpublishing And for those who'd like to see the film — premiering TOMORROW, Oct 2 and TUESDAY, Oct 4, in Canada @viffest along with a Q&A with @herwig_photo — please see the link in our bio or go to: https://viff.org/whats-on/soviet-bus-stops Film poster and title sequence also by @fuelpublishing Directed by Kristoffer Hegnsvad @soviet_busstops #sovietbusstops #fueldesign #fuelpublishing https://www.instagram.com/p/CjOKSw6p__D/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Soviet Bus Stops, study of Christopher Herwig
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Tashkent.
Elaborate Underground Architecture of Soviet Metro Stations Photographed by Christopher Herwig
Baku
St. Petersburg
Kharkiv
Moscow
KryvyiRih
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Soviet Bus Stops, Volume II by Christopher Herwig
Soviet Bus Stops, Volume II by Christopher Herwig reviewed by Doug (@bagatsen) who is just as delighted as with the first volume.
“‘This is bullshit,’ I mumbled, through tears of exhaustion and frustration. The chances of the 4×4 climbing the snowy Goderdzi Pass were as slim as the likelihood that the bus stop at the summit was the prize I so desperately sought. Why was I still doing this after fifteen years, why couldn’t I stop?” (p. 198)
Christopher Herwig’s afterword to his second volume of Soviet Bus Stopsposes the…
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