Vladimir Birgus: So Much, So Little: Photographs from the Years When So Much Was Demanded and So Little Was Allowed

The contradictions of life in Eastern Europe in the 1970s and '80s

Czech photographer Vladimír Birgus (born 1954) presents black-and-white photographs of Eastern European cities that capture the contrasts between optimistic communist propaganda and the gloomy reality of everyday life in this era.