Soviet Bus Stops

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Photographer Christopher Herwig first noticed the ordinary architecture of Soviet-era bus stops throughout a 2002 long-distance bike ride from London to St. Petersburg. Challenging himself to take one good photograph each hour, Herwig started to notice surprisingly designed bus stops on another way deserted stretches of road. Twelve years later, Herwig had covered more than 18,000 miles in 14 countries of the former Soviet Union, traveling by car, bike, bus and taxi to hunt down and document these bus stops.
The local bus stop proved to be fertile ground for local artistic experimentation in the Soviet period, and was once built seemingly without design restrictions or budgetary concerns. The result is an astonishing variety of styles and types across the region, from the strictest Brutalism to exuberant whimsy.
Soviet Bus Stops is the most comprehensive and diverse number of Soviet bus stop design ever assembled, including examples from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Abkhazia, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and Estonia. At first published in a quickly sold-out limited edition, Soviet Bus Stops, named some of the best photobooks of 2014 by Martin Parr, is now to be had in a highly anticipated, expanded smaller-format trade edition.

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