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Copyright: Kristina Iolob (kristina)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-09-07 |
| Categories: Daily Life |
| Exposure: f/3.0, 1/300 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop |
| Date Submitted: 2008-09-07 4:09 |
| Viewed: 186 |
| Points: 4 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Minsk is the capital and largest city in Belarus, situated on the Svislach and Niamiha rivers.....and "bla-bla-bla"..
Let's try to open one of the Internet search engine, write the name of your native city and you can read the most boring things about it:)
so..is it really boring?:)
"On a first visit to Minsk, a European cannot but be fascinated by the city's strange yet irresistible charm. What strikes the tourist is the imperial aesthetics, a phenomenon quite rare in Europe. Wide streets and avenues, palaces adorned with rather odd but nevertheless lavish decoration, and numerous vast parks in the city centre are luxuries that can be afforded only by very rich and aristocratic European cities. However Minsk, though monumental, does not look absolutely cold, hostile, or domineering, but is touched by a delicate air of provincial sentimentalism. For European architecture, nothing could be more out of the ordinary than the sentimental imperial style. In Minsk, imperial city space, which by definition is intended to keep the individual at a distance, is suddenly split, to become close to and congruous with humans. Like in Lewis Carroll's Wonderland, mighty architectural structures shrink to the size of doll's houses and then mushroom to elephantine proportions again. The scenery changes all the time. A gorgeous, splendidly decorated arch leads you into a shabby-looking courtyard with lines of tiny little booths instead of balconies, the only decoration on its unplastered walls. Another two hundred metres – and another monumental arch shows you the way out of this feast of wretchedness into another huge square, where gigantic Corinthian columns march along the pavement, making passers-by look like Lilliputians. Its rhythms, aesthetics, moods constantly changing, the city space develops irrational and illogical zones that remind you of Franz Kafka, Elias Canetti, or Daniil Kharms, even making you feel you are a character from their stories."
i'm sure you think that only Paris, Berlin, Rome or Prague are cities where each of you step - is a step of history... Minsk - is the city of dying history for person, who couldn't or wouldn't to hear:)
"Minsk has never been a noticeable site for of great political, economic, or cultural trends, to say nothing of an empire, even a second-rate one. It took less than a century for a small provincial town, barely visible on the map of Europe, to turn into what by European standards is an enormous, two-million strong megalopolis, wearing lavish, even if slightly odd robes. The miraculous transfiguration was the result of some mystical genius loci. It was the logical result of a mythologeme that can be traced back centuries."
Open your map. Are you already ready for your next vacation?:) |
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