Radical eye : the photography of Miron Zownir

Robert Klanten

Twenty years of radical photography fills this first publication of Miron Zownir's work. Beginning in the late 1970s as a chronicler of the punk movement in Berlin, he then moved to New York, taking photos of hookers, the gay and S&M scene, the homeless, criminals and any kind of freaks around the legendary "sexpiers" by the Hudson River. During the early 90s he started documenting social and moral decline in the former Soviet Union by taking photos of the homeless, juvenile street gangs, Mafia, drunkards - the living proof of the backyards of modern society.