Category Archives: Photos

Facebook, too!

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Natalia

NOW, The Constructivist Project is on Facebook, too! ^Mossovet truck garage, Melnikov and Shukhov (structural engineering), 1926-1929

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Dynamo Stadium – Then & Now

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Natalia

THEN: Dynamo Stadium photos from Фотографии старой Москвы (Photographs of old Moscow) ^1936-1940 ^1940-1950 ^1935 Preparing the field after reconstruction of the stadium ^1936 ^1936-1940 from the series “Architecture of Moscow (1920-1940)” ^1941 Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White from LIFE magazine … Continue reading →

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Dynamo Demolition

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Natalia

When photographing architecture for my project in fall of 2011, I had wanted to photograph the Dynamo stadium to feature on one of my posters. Unfortunately, it was already covered up with ads by VTB bank advertising its reconstruction… It … Continue reading →

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Back to School

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Natalia

A few (favorite!) photos from today’s scanning activities: “Reconstruction of the monument of architecture – School No. 518 (style – postconstructivism, architect Zvezdin I. A., 1935) was overseen by GLAVMOSSTROEM in 2002.” Sadovnicheskaya Embankment 37, B.1 “School 518 is a … Continue reading →

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Screens

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Natalia

Getting ready for SILK SCREEN PRINTING: today I picked up my re-stretched photo resolution screens (305 mesh count). Thank You Creative Screen Technologies in San Leandro!

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Contact Sheets

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Natalia

Post-production continues, this time in the darkroom: contact sheets!

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Capture to Post

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Natalia

A binder-ful of negatives, this project has moved from capture – to – > post-production. Below, fresh scans of the NARKOMFIN Building in the cold of December.

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Lissitzky’s Ogonyok

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Natalia

Recently discovered only in 2007, EL LISSITZKY’S only architectural work that made it from paper into a realized form, the OGONYOK PRINTING PLANT in central Moscow, is in a precarious situation. ^all locked up and forgotten ^underwent suspicious fires ^surrounded … Continue reading →

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Familiar Sights

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Natalia

Familiar sights / sites of avant–garde architecture right in the CENTER of Moscow ! ^Lenin Mausoleum ^Arkos Joint Stock Company Building (grey building) ^Ptitsevodsoyuz Headquarters (green building) ^Kremlin Polyclinic ^Mosselprom Headquarters ^Izvestia Headquarters

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Film Film Film

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Natalia

Lots of film shot during my time in Moscow. Now in California: it’s time to process, edit, and develop some pictures! Narkomfin Building: http://narkomfin.ru/Eng/Narkomfin.aspx Melnikov House: http://www.melnikovhouse.org/home.php

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