‘You Will Stay Silent’: Photographs From Behind the Iron Curtain

‘You Will Stay Silent’: Photographs From Behind the Iron Curtain

The New York Times-Books·2022-05-15 06:03

In 1977, the photojournalist Arthur Grace arrived at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport to document “life behind the Iron Curtain” for Time and Newsweek. Taken over 12 years, the black-and-white images collected in COMMUNISM(S): A COLD WAR ALBUM (Damiani, $60) reflect just that: the everyday lives of citizens young and old, rich and poor, proud and powerless, set against the literally colorless backdrops of Poland, the Soviet Union, Romania, East Germany and Yugoslavia.

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