2024-12-22T08:00:25-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/15327469/sozialistische-moderne-arch-ologie-einer-zeit Nam Henderson 2011-07-31T20:11:29-04:00 >2011-08-01T10:35:43-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/48/48o513o9om5x2vsq.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Still, Bezjak hasn't refrained entirely from commenting on the architecture. He developed strict formal guidelines for his series, photographing it all with a large-format camera and always with the same lens. "I photographed everything that fit within this frame -- in terms of the buildings' dimensions, but also in terms of the possibilities for distancing oneself from the building -- and not the rest," he says.</p></em><br /><br /><p> The photographer Roman Bezjak spent five years traveling around Eastern Europe taking pictures of communist-era buildings. Born in Slovenia but raised in West Germany, he set out to document the everyday qualities of communist buildings. His book recently published book "Sozialistische Moderne - Arch&auml;ologie einer Zeit" was released by Hatje Cantz Verlag this year.</p>