Selected Photographs, 2002–2013

Svetlana Boym
From the Phantom Limbs series, 2011–13
Photographic prints, 26 × 17 in.
Courtesy of Yury and Musa Goldberg

Svetlana Boym
LEAVING NEW YORK (Cities in Transit), 2003
Photographic print, 17 × 22 in.
Courtesy of Yury and Musa Goldberg

Svetlana Boym
From the Multitasking with Clouds series, 2008–9
Photographic prints, 15 1/2 × 16 1/2 in.
Courtesy of Yury and Musa Goldberg

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Svetlana Boym
LEAVING COPENHAGEN (Printing Errors), date unknown
Photographic print, 17 × 22 in.
Courtesy of Yury and Musa Goldberg

Svetlana Boym
LEAVING BERLIN (Images without Black), 2003
Photographic print, 10 × 8 in.
Courtesy of Yury and Musa Goldberg

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Svetlana Boym
untitled, date unknown
Photographic print with overlay, 7 3/4 × 10 in.
Courtesy of Yury and Musa Goldberg

IMAGES >> SVETLANA BOYM (1959–2015)

The photographs in this issue are the work of the late Svetlana Boym: professor of Slavic languages and literatures and comparative literature at Harvard University, novelist, playwright, artist, cherished teacher and colleague. In the place of our usual artist’s statement and biography, we offer instead a tribute essay by Cristina Vatulescu.

Many of Svetlana’s former colleagues, students, and friends helped locate, label, and scan the photographs that fill the pages of this issue. The editors of diacritics are grateful for the enthusiastic support and technical assistance of many: Tamar Abramov, Nicole Burgoyne, Julia Chadaga, David Damrosch, Anne Lounsbery, and Serge Ryappo. And our special thanks to Yury and Musa Goldberg, Svetlana’s parents.

With the photographs in this issue, we do our best to honor Svetlana Boym’s memory, with a keen awareness that we have embarked upon what she referred to as “the imperfect process of remembrance.”

www.svetlanaboym.com

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Svetlana Boym
LEAVING SARAJEVO (Printing Errors), 2002
Photographic print, 17 × 22 in.
Courtesy of Yury and Musa Goldberg