The Soviet photograph, 1924-1937 / Margarita Tupitsyn.

Main entry:

Tupitsyn, Margarita.

Title & Author:

The Soviet photograph, 1924-1937 / Margarita Tupitsyn.

Publication:

Description:

x, 198 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-190) and index.
1. Lenin's Death and the Birth of Political Photomontage -- 2. The Photographer in the Service of the Collective -- 3. Photo-Still versus Photo-Picture: The Politics of (De)Framing -- 4. Debating the Photographic Image -- 5. The Restructuring of a Photographer.

Summary:

Tupitsyn challenges the view that the Soviet avant-garde peaked in the 1920s and was subsequently forced to conform with Bolshevik politics. Instead she asserts that photography during this period represented the last "great experiment" in the search for the most effective ways to connect art, radical politics, and the masses. Investigating the means by which the new visual tools for disseminating revolutionary messages were adapted to the needs of Stalinist propaganda, Tupitsyn relates major examples of single-frame photography and photomontage to such events as the implementation of the New Economic Policy, Lenin's death, and Stalin's first and second Five-Year Plans, and to mounting censorship of the arts. She also establishes a link between the writings of critics and the development of photography and photomontage at this time. The book presents previously unpublished material from Klutsis's letters, Rodchenko's public lectures, Lissitzky's late writings on the mass media, and Kulagina's personal diaries, as well as many previously unknown photographs.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0300064500 (alk. paper)
9780300064506 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
Photography Soviet Union History.
Art and state Soviet Union.
Photographie URSS Histoire.
Art Politique gouvernementale URSS.
Art and state
Photography
Fotografie
Communisme.
Photography Russia.
Art and state Russia History 20th century.
Soviet Union
Sowjetunion

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 115519
Call No.: ID TR85.T87; ID:96-B2813
Status: Available

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