Author: KOSORUKOV, Gleb
Title: Gleb Kosorukov - Heroes of Labour. [New].
Description: Göttingen, Steidl, 2017. 34.5 x 25 cm. 160 pp. Clothbound with dustjacket. Illustrated in colour throughout. - On 31 August 1935 Alexej Stakhanov, a jackhammer operator at Central-Irmino coal mine, mined a record 102 tons of coal in five hours and forty-five minutes (fourteen times his daily quota). - On the 74th anniversary of Stakhanov's achievement, Gleb Kosorukov undertook a photographic research project on the identity of modern miners as an archetype of the working class, affected by the changing value of material labor and the decline of social justice. Kosorukov took 100 portraits of miners during shift changes at the largest mine in Europe, located in the eastern Ukraine, which bears the name of Stakhanov [...] - New copy

Keywords: 9783869306896


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