The Commissar Vanishes : The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia

2014

Boek; 232 p ill

Oorspronkelijke uitgave: New York : Metropolitian Books, 2014. - Met lijst werken

Publication onderzoekt het gebruik van fotografie als manipulatief propagandamiddel tijdens de Stalin periode in de Sovjet-Unie. - Publication is a unique and brilliant study into the doctoring and propogandising of Soviet photographs by Stalin’s regime. Publication offers a chilling look at how Joseph Stalin manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and to erase the memory of his victims. On Stalin’s orders, purged rivals were airbrushed from group portraits, and crowd scenes were altered to depict even greater legions of the faithful. For example, a 1919 photograph showing a large crowd of Bolsheviks clustered around Lenin, became, with the aid of the retoucher, an intimate portrait of Lenin and Stalin sitting alone, and then, in a later version, of Stalin by himself. In each case, the juxtaposition of the original and the doctored images yields a fascinating, terrifying and tragic insight into one of the darkest chapters of modern history.

Located in: FOTOGRAFIE; RUSLAND; 1918-1953

ISBN: 9781849762519

VUBIS: 2:105133