Item Summary

The series Streets Have No Names explores collective memory through a layered visual language. On one side, it presents a series of defocused portraits of wartime “heroes” whose names have been given to city streets. On the other, it juxtaposes these with street profiles captured via Google Street View, revealing the contours of the urban landscape

This pairing invites reflection on the role of military memory within the geography of the city. It raises questions about what constitutes a street, not only as physical infrastructure but as a site of historical inscription and how memory persists or fades within everyday spatial experience.

Descriptive Information

Title
Streets Have No Names - 1-23
Sort Title
streets have no names - 1-23
Creator of work
Liankevich, Andrei
Language
Belarusian
English
Date Created
2011
Format
Photographs
Series
Goodbye, Motherland
Rights Statement
In Copyright

Discovery Information

Subject
Arts and culture
Photography
History
Local history
Human and civil rights
Collective memory
Politics and government
World War, 1939-1945
Geographic Subject
Belarus
Geographic Origin
Belarus

Physical Characteristics

Height
40
Width
60
Page Count
23
File Count
23

Institutional Information

Collection
The photography of Andrei Liankevich
Box number
Digital box #1
Folder number
360-372
Barcode
00000000000000
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/ephemera_folders/1ebbfe19-e9cd-4b8c-8562-9c030ab464aa/manifest