Gueorgui Pinkhassov Discotheque. Moscow. 1993.
"As The New York Times correspondent in Moscow, I encountered all kinds of fascinating characters and subcultures, and felt the new powerful wave of youthful energy, vit
(...) ality and passion amplifying social changes. I might compare it with the Russian avant-garde of Malevich, Mayakovsky and Eisenstein, which went hand-in-hand with the revolution beginning in the 20th century. It was like a tsunami. The previous generation was not able to protect their values of national unity and traditional social order-the tsunami was rising, flooding and overthrowing the unsteady and corrupt political power. To me, this was not unlike Europe in the 1960s, a conflict of generations, youth overthrowing their corrupt parents, yearning to come to power and proclaim new justice."
- Gueorgui Pinkhassov © Gueorgui Pinkhassov | Magnum Photos
