Observers from Abroad
Twentieth Century Western Documentary Photography in the USSR
Series: Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 31 March 2025
- ISBN 9781032532875
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 460 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 115 Illustrations, black & white; 115 Halftones, black & white 650
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Short description:
Observers from Abroad offers an examination of published and archival images of Soviet Russia, providing a deeper understanding of the complexities and vicissitudes of its political culture.
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Observers from Abroad offers an examination of published and archival images of Soviet Russia, providing a deeper understanding of the complexities and vicissitudes of its political culture.
The book argues that photography, when accurately interpreted, can be utilized as primary historical evidence that has the potential to both enhance and counter traditional verbal analysis. Employing a number of images of the Soviet Union captured by gifted documentary photographers from the West, who received visas to work in Moscow from the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 to the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the book also assesses the intentions of the photographers, who acted as conscious observers capturing visual evidence under the restraining conditions of state surveillance. Each chapter provides a closer look at the life and work of these photographers, with a wealth of historical images and discussion.
Richly illustrated and engaging, this volume will be ideal for students, scholars, and readers interested in Soviet history, twentieth century history, and the history of photography.
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Introduction: The USSR in Black and White 1. First Pictorial Impressions from Revolutionary Russia 2. James Abbe: The Original Photographic Cold Warrior 3. Margaret Bourke-White: Modernity and the Machine Age 4. John Heartfield: The Dialectics of Communist Photomontage 5. Robert Capa: Travels with Steinbeck 6. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Aesthetic Humanist 7. The Tense and Tender Imagery of William Klein 8. Inge Morath’s Russian Intelligentsia 9. Brief Encounters with a Dying State Conclusion
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