238 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm
Notes:
"This book has been published in conjunction with the exhibition The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet FIlm, organized by the Jewish Museum, New York, and curated by Susan Tumarkin Goodman and Jens Hoffmann, September 18, 2015-February 2, 2016"--Title page verso and Published under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-233) and index
Contents:
Avant-garde and after: photography in the early Soviet Union / Susan Tumarkin Goodman -- Film is conflict / Jens Hoffmann -- Soviet photography of the 1920s and 1930s in its cultural context: the photo landscape of the period / Alexander Lavrentiev
Summary:
"Covering the period from the Revolution to the beginning of World War II, this book considers Soviet avant-garde photography and film in the context of political history and culture. Three essays trace this generation of artists, their experiments with new media, and their pursuit of a new political order. A wealth of stunning photographs, film stills, and film posters, as well as magazine and book designs, demonstrate that their output encompassed a spectacular range of style, content, and perspective, and an extraordinary sense of the power of the photograph to change the world."-- Provided by publisher