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Propaganda & dreams : photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US

Author

Bendavid-Val, Leah.

Title

Propaganda & dreams : photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US / Leah Bendavid-Val.

Format

Book

Published

Zurich ; New York : Edition Stemmle, ©1999 (Baar/Zug, Switzerland : Kündig Druck AG)

Description

223 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm

Other contributors

Rawls, Walton H. Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Variant title

Propaganda and dreams

Notes

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Propaganda & dreams ... curated by Leah Bendavid-Val and organized by The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, July 3 to October 3, 1999"--Title page verso. "Editorial direction by Walton Rawls"--Title page verso. Includes photography by USSR photographers Max Alpert, Viktor Bulla, Dmitri Debabov, Alexander Grinberg, Boris Ignatovich, Olga Ignatovich, Yevgeny Khaldei, Yakov Khalip, Oleg Knoring, Elizar Langman, Georgy Lipskerov, Mark Markov-Grinberg, Vladislav Mikosha, Max Penson, Georgy Petrusov, Alexander Rodchenko, Arkady Shaikhet, Arkady Shishkin, Leonid Shokin, Anatoly Skurikhin, Sergei Strunnikov, Viktor Temin, Georgy Zelma ; and US photographers Esther Bubley, Marjory Collins, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Andreas Feininger, Theodor Jung, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, Arthur Siegel, John Vachon. Includes bibliographical references (page 221). Also issued online.

Contents

• Foreword / James H. Billington
• The USSR and the US: A Comparative Portfolio
• Photographing the 1930s: Differences in Focus
• The USSR: A Portfolio
• The US: A Portfolio
• Afterword / Philip Brookman.

Subject headings

Documentary photography--United States--Exhibitions. Documentary photography--Soviet Union--Exhibitions. Press and propaganda--United States--Exhibitions. Press and propaganda--Soviet Union--Exhibitions. Soviet Union--History--1917-1936--Pictorial works. United States--History--1919-1933--Pictorial works.

Other subjects

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Genre heading

Exhibition catalogs. History. Pictorial works. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogues.

ISBN

3908161800 9783908161806