The power of pictures
Subtitle: early Soviet photography, early Soviet film
By: Susan Tumarkin Goodman, Jens Hoffmann ; with an essay by Alexander Lavrentiev
Contributors: Hoffmann, Jens, 1974- author, curator; Lavrentʹev, A. N. (Aleksandr Nikolaevich), writer of essay; Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.); Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780300207682
Subjects: Motion pictures; Photography; Artistic Photography; Exhibitions
Description: 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.--Yale University Press website (viewed on September 16, 2015)
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.

Published under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Avant-garde and after: photography in the early Soviet Union / Susan Tumarkin Goodman; title: Film is conflict / Jens Hoffmann; title: Soviet photography of the 1920s and 1930s in its cultural context: the photo landscape of the period / Alexander Lavrentiev