The Phillip Harrington photography archive shows photographs of Elvis Presley, Benny Goodman, Nat King Cole, Nancy Sinatra, Gary Snyder, Edward Abbey, Jack Kerouac, John Cage, Charles Lloyd, Russia, 1956, Sergey Obraztsov, Alexei Zoubov, Alik Salgannik, Viktor Zelchenko, Tallinn, 1967, Vladimir Vasiliev, Lauren Bacall, Tennessee Williams, the Smothers Brothers and many others
Photographs by Phillip Harrington, shot in Moscow in November 1956. When Harrington arrived in Moscow, he worked with journalist Edmund Stevens of Time Magazine and set out to photograph the lives of ordinary people in Moscow and across Russia. These old vintage images show Harrington's street photography of people shopping, at the market, commuting on the train, working, going to the theater, and playing.
Locations are the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, Kremlin, St. Basil's Cathedral, the Kremlin, Novospassky Monastery, and the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNH)
St. Basil's is barely visible in background, Moscow, 1956
Moscow, 1956
Novospassky Monastery, Moscow, 1956
Novospassky Monastery 1956
Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge - at approximately the location where Boris Nemtsov was assassinated. Moscow, 1956
Moscow, 1956
St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, 1956
Youths on the bridge, Moscow, 1956
Statue of Russian soldiers in a museum in Moscow, 1956
Russian and East German Soldiers examining new cars in Moscow 1956.
Girls in Street, Moscow 1956
Moscow, 1956
Obraztsov Puppet Theater
VDNK
Group of people visiting the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy, 1956
Line of people going to see a film in Moscow, 1956
Televisions for sale in a store window in Moscow, 1956
Fruit and Vegetable shop in Moscow 1956
People at an outdoor market
People at an outdoor market
People at an outdoor market
People at an outdoor market
People at an outdoor market
People at an outdoor market
Sellers at the market
Family selling pomegranates at a market in Moscow, 1956
People at an outdoor market
People at an outdoor market
People at an outdoor market
People at an outdoor market
Commuters
Commuters
Commuters
Commuters
Commuters
Commuters
Commuters
Commuters
Commuters
Commuters