NATHAN FARB AND THE COLD WAR

In 1977, New York pho­to­grapher Nathan Farb pul­led off a real coup: he took por­traits of num­e­rous peo­p­le in Novo­si­birsk, Soviet Uni­on, and smug­g­led his nega­ti­ves through the Iron Curtain in a diplo­ma­tic bag. The pho­tos went around the world. Some of them are now on dis­play at MOMA. For the docu­men­ta­ry, he is once again tra­ve­ling to Sibe­ria, this time tog­e­ther with Frank­fur­t’s Kino­bri­ga­da heroes Natha­ni­el Knop and Peter Rippl, with pho­to and film came­ras in tow.