Photography
Jean-Christophe Béchet
August 1991: I buy a ticket on Aeroflot and arrive in Moscow just as this strange coup d'état is unfolding. Gorbachev loses what little credibility he has left, and Boris Yeltsin delivers the coup de grâce to a Soviet Union in the throes of decay. Thirty years later, Jean-Christophe Béchet reconstructs his account of the fall of a historical monument thr(...)
August 1991: I buy a ticket on Aeroflot and arrive in Moscow just as this strange coup d’état is unfolding. Gorbachev loses what little credibility he has left, and Boris Yeltsin delivers the coup de grâce to a Soviet Union in the throes of decay.
Thirty years later, Jean-Christophe Béchet reconstructs his account of the fall of a historical monument through photographs and documents from the period, in both images and text.
URSS ÉTÉ 1991, 17×24 cm, 120 pages, insert of different sized paper for texts, approximately 100 reproductions in two-color and four-color printing, full cloth binding with images and embossing
ISBN 9782843140488
Graphic design: L’atelier d’édition
