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""The bewildering paradoxes of life in post-Communist Russia--the tension between the alluring promises of freedom and the iron constraints of the market economy--are the foci of Sergey Bratkov's oeuvre. . . . [The retrospective] Sergey Bratkov: Glory Days is accompanied by an elegant catalog, offering an overview of this oeuvre--a body of work with such a remarkable sense of urgency that much comparable contemporary photography seems pale and tepid in comparison.""-- ""Aperture""

The bewildering paradoxes of life in post-Communist Russia--the tension between the alluring promises of freedom and the iron constraints of the market economy--are the foci of Sergey Bratkov's oeuvre. . . . [The retrospective] Sergey Bratkov: Glory Days is accompanied by an elegant catalog, offering an overview of this oeuvre--a body of work with such a remarkable sense of urgency that much comparable contemporary photography seems pale and tepid in comparison. --Aperture

"The bewildering paradoxes of life in post-Communist Russia--the tension between the alluring promises of freedom and the iron constraints of the market economy--are the foci of Sergey Bratkov's oeuvre. . . . [The retrospective] Sergey Bratkov: Glory Days is accompanied by an elegant catalog, offering an overview of this oeuvre--a body of work with such a remarkable sense of urgency that much comparable contemporary photography seems pale and tepid in comparison.-- ""Aperture"""

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Thomas Seelig is curator of the permanent collection at the Fotomuseum Winterthur. Marta Kuzma is head of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway in Oslo, Norway and has been curator of the Manifest 5 in San Sebastian, Spain, in 2004 and of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Kiev, Ukraine. Mikhail Ryklin is a Russian philosopher and writer. He contributes regularly to Lettre Internationale and lives in Moscow. Bart De Baere is director of the Museum van Hededaagse Kunst Antwerpen (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Antwerp, Belgium. He has been co-curator of the Documenta IX in Kassel, Germany, in 1992.

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