Author: Karasik, Mikhail.
Title: The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941.
Description: Edited by Manfred Heiting. Göttingen : Steidl, 2015. Hardcover. 636 pp. Ills. 26,6 x 28,8 cm. Unopened in orig. carton box. English text. Heavy item. Additional shipping costs apply outside Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - The Soviet Union was unique in its formidable and dynamic use of the illustrated book as a means of propaganda. Through the book, the U.S.S.R. articulated its totalitarian ideologies and expressed its absolute power in an unprecedented way-through avant-garde writing and radical artistic design that was in full fl ower during the 1920s and '30s. No other country, nation, government or political system promoted itself more by attracting and employing acclaimed members of the avant-garde. Among them were writers like Semion Kirsanov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ilya Selvinsky, Sergei Tretyakov and Kornely Zelinsky; artistic designers like Gustav Klutsis, Valentina Kulagina, El Lissitzky, Sergei Senkin, Varvara Stepanova, Solomon Telingater and Nikolai Troshin; and photographers including Dmitry Debabov, Vladimir Griuntal, Boris Ignatovich, Alexander Khlebnikov, Yeleazar Langman, Alexander Rodchenko, Georgy Petrusov-not to mention many of the best printers and book binders.The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941 presents 160 of the moststunning and elaborately produced photobooks from this period and includes more than 400 additional reference illustrations. The book also provides short biographies of the photobook contributors, some of whom are presented here for the first time. ISBN 9783958290310.

Keywords: PHOTOGRAPHY, Soviet Union