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Why are Soviet era photos so ???
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06-10-2012, 07:43 AM (This post was last modified: 06-10-2012, 07:44 AM by Henry Sakaida.)
Have you ever noticed the poor quality of Soviet era photos reproduced in their books and magazines? I have a bunch of books published in the 1960s and 1970s and some of the photos in them look so bad, I am wondering if they aren't pencil drawings or ??? See attached. To my eyes, these 2 photos just don't seem "real." The one where a soldier is raising a flag looks almost cartoonish.

Is it the old Soviet printing press technology which makes their photos look so bad? Sometimes, I wonder if they took a nice original photo, laid some tracing paper over the photo, and then copied the original in pencil, and submitted that for publication!

If any of you have answers, I'm dying to know!!!
Thank you.

HENRY


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Why are Soviet era photos so ??? - by Henry Sakaida - 06-10-2012, 07:43 AM
Why are Soviet era photos so ??? - by desantnik - 06-10-2012, 07:52 AM
Why are Soviet era photos so ??? - by charlet - 06-10-2012, 10:03 AM
Why are Soviet era photos so ??? - by CtahhR - 06-10-2012, 11:32 AM
Why are Soviet era photos so ??? - by medals73 - 06-10-2012, 11:39 AM

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