Soviet Signs and Street Relics Photo-books I began documenting store frontsand

I began documenting store frontsand shoe shops still standing unaltered through the passage of time

Crest is set in a remote and enclosed Alpine valley

Charles Brittin

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Soviet Signs and Street Relics Photo-books I began documenting store frontsandFrench photographer Jason Guilbeau has used Google Street View to virtually navigate Russia and the former USSR, searching for examples of a forgotten Soviet empire. From remote rural roadsides to densely populated cities, the photographs reveal traces of history in plain sight: a Brutalist hammer and sickle stands in a remote field; a jet fighter is anchored to the ground by its concrete exhaust plume; a skeletal tractor sits on a cast iron platform;