passports were required to enter the us every two years.
passports were required to enter the us every two years.
when were passports required to enter the us?
two years
Na
Na
when in 1946 the new internal soviet passports required photographs of their bearers, stanionis was authorized to take them. a white sheet was a sufficient backdrop, and stanionis would often photograph two people together in order to reduce costs. a number of these photographs (uncut) survive. stanionis would also take any other photographs on demand; some survive of lithuanian partisans. in 1947 he got a job in a regional newspaper, and was a popular photographer, although his work was hindered by his poor health. photographs recently exhibited and republished show people more or less stiffly standing or sitting for photographs they had requested, plus soviet rallies and rituals (some with floats eerily reminiscent of demonstrations of us civic pride), the river nemunas (particularly in flood), and people unselfconsciously going about their business.
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