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The power of pictures: early Soviet photography, early Soviet film

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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.--

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.

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    • New York, NY: The Jewish Museum, New York
    • New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015

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    1917-1939

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    9780300207682

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    • Jewish Museum, New York September 25, 2015-February 2, 2016; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville March 11-July 4, 2016; Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam July 24-November 27, 2016
    • 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.

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