Damon Murray

Brutal Bloc Postcards by Stephen Sorrell, FUEL, and Damon Murray is a collection of previously unpublished postcards from the former Eastern Bloc. Sinister, funny, poignant, and surreal, they depict the social and architectural values of the period. Brutal concrete hotels, futurist TV towers, and heroic worker statues—this collection of Soviet era postcards documents the uncompromising landscape of the Eastern Bloc...

An incredible collection of images of chess players from the last 130 years, showcasing the unique relationship between chess and culture, featuring world-famous actors, artists, politicians, and musicians. You don't have to play chess to appreciate Chess Players: from Charlie Chaplin to Wu-Tang Clan, but as Martin Amis asks in his illuminating essay: What are they playing at? These evocative...

The book includes examples from the 1960s through to the 1980s, but focuses on posters produced during Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign initiated in 1985. These posters attempted to sober up Soviet citizens by forcing them to confront the issues associated with excessive alcohol consumption. This government-led urgency allowed the poster designers to present the anti-alcohol message in the most graphic terms:...

Drawings from the Gulag consists of 130 drawings by Danzig Baldaev describing the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's father, a respected ethnographer, taught him techniques to record the tattoos of criminals in St Petersburg's notorious Kresty prison, where he worked as a guard. He was reported to the KGB who unexpectedly...