Leah Bendavid-Val: PROPAGANDA AND DREAMS: PHOTOGRAPHING THE 1930S IN THE USSR AND THE US. Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 1999. First edition. An as-new hardcover book with a near-fine dustjacket: slight wear to jacket. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
9.75 x 11 hardcover book with 223 pages with 214 b/w photos and 9 color plates. This book was published on the occasion of the exhibit of the same name curated by Leah Bendavid-Val and shown at the Corcoran from July 3-October 3, 1999. Extraordinary collection of 1930s photographs including a page of layouts from “You have Seen Their Faces” and a page of layouts from “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.” Why hasn’t anyone thought of comparing the workers’ decade in the US and USSR before?
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US photographers include Esther Bubley, Marjory Collins, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Andreas Feininger, Theodor Jung, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Beaumont Newhall, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, Arthur Siegel, and John Vachon.
USSR photographers include 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, Ivan Shagin, Arkady Shaikhet, Arkady Shishkin, Leonid Shokin, Anatoly Skurikhin, Sergei Strunnikov, Viktor Temin, and Georgy Zelma.
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