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Freckles (Genka)
Moscow 1959
When did you know you’d captured something special with your camera? Was it the moment you closed the shutter, or not until later when you’d actually see the printed result?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
You took your first camera to a “Jazz Night” party when jazz was officially banned by the state. Many years later, in 1967, you took photographs of the first American jazz group to be invited to play in the Soviet Union (at a festival in Tallinn, Estonia). Were you a jazz lover then?
                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                               
You were born in Odessa in 1932, grew up under Stalin, were a young man during Khrushchev’s “warming,” witnessed Brezhnev wrest control from Khrushchev in 1964 and the Prague Spring of 1968; Afghanistan, Gorbachev, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the election of Yeltsin in 1991. Five years later, you immigrated to the United States. If you were to return, would you recognize your country? Would it feel like home? What do you miss most today, right now?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        


































































































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