1997, ISBN: 0805052941

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780805052947], Near Fine, [PU: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company], USSR, SOVIET UNION, PHOTOGRAPHY, CENSORSHIP, PURGES, HISTORY, STALIN, LENIN, TROTSKY, Political Science |… More...

[EAN: 9780805052947], Near Fine, [PU: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company], USSR, SOVIET UNION, PHOTOGRAPHY, CENSORSHIP, PURGES, HISTORY, STALIN, LENIN, TROTSKY, Political Science |Political Ideologies|Communism & Socialism, Photography|Subjects & Themes|Portraits, Political Science |Censorship, History|Europe|Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Photography|Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions, Jacket, THE COMMISSAR VANISHES: THE FALSIFICATION OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND ART IN STALIN'S RUSSIA (Photographs from the David King Collection), David King, preface by Stephen F. Cohen, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, first edition, third printing, 1997. BOOK CONDITION: near fine. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. No signature or bookplate of a prior owner. Not a library book or remainder. The orange cloth boards are in near fine condition. The dust jacket is in near fine condition. 11 ¾ x 10, 192 pages, 42 ounces XX [From the dust jacket flaps] Under Stalin's regime photographs lied. In David King's unique and revealing book, the same photographs, their original images restored, speak volumes of truth. Considering the five decades of official falsifications and zealous concealment, David King's book is heroic, the product of an immense, one-man archaeology (from the preface by Stephen E. Cohen, Princeton University). THE COMMISSAR VANISHES offers a chilling look at how one man, 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. In one famous image, several extraneous Party members disappeared from an official photograph, to be replaced by a sylvan glade. For the past three decades, author and photo historian David King has assembled the world's largest archive of photographs, posters, and paintings from the Soviet era. King began his collection during a trip to Russia in 1970, when he discovered that thousands of images of Stalin's victims had been lost to posterity, either by design or neglect. His collection has grown to more than a quarter of a million images, the best of which have been selected for THE COMMISSAR VANISHES. The efforts of the Kremlin airbrushers were often unintentionally hilarious. A 1919 photograph showing a large crowd of Bolsheviks clustered around Lenin, for example, 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 perhaps the most macabre sequence of all, THE COMMISSAR VANISHES reproduces photographs from a book in the personal library of a prominent Soviet artist. The faces of the subjects, many of them dissidents purged under Stalin, had been crudely blacked out in ink: the owner had been required by law to censor his own books. THE COMMISSAR VANISHES is nothing less than the history of the Soviet Union, as retold through falsified images, many of them published here for the first time outside Russia. In each case, the juxtaposition of the original and the doctored images yields a terrifying, and often tragically funny, insight into one of the darkest chapters of modern history. XX DAVID KING has produced and designed many books on Soviet subjects, including a photographic biography of Leon Trotsky. The art editor of the London Sunday Times magazine from 1965 to 1975, King lives in London. STEPHEN F. COHEN is Professor of Politics and Russian Studies at Princeton University and the author of several books., Books<

1997, ISBN: 0805052941

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780805052947], Near Fine, [PU: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company], USSR, SOVIET UNION, PHOTOGRAPHY, CENSORSHIP, PURGES, HISTORY, STALIN, LENIN, TROTSKY, Political Science|P… More...

[EAN: 9780805052947], Near Fine, [PU: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company], USSR, SOVIET UNION, PHOTOGRAPHY, CENSORSHIP, PURGES, HISTORY, STALIN, LENIN, TROTSKY, Political Science|Political Ideologies|Communism & Socialism, Photography|Subjects & Themes|Portraits, Political Science|Censorship, History|Europe|Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Photography|Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions, Jacket, THE COMMISSAR VANISHES: THE FALSIFICATION OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND ART IN STALIN'S RUSSIA (Photographs from the David King Collection), David King, preface by Stephen F. Cohen, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, first edition, third printing, 1997. BOOK CONDITION: near fine. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. No signature or bookplate of a prior owner. Not a library book or remainder. The orange cloth boards are in near fine condition. The dust jacket is in near fine condition. 11 ¾ x 10, 192 pages, 42 ounces XX [From the dust jacket flaps] Under Stalin's regime photographs lied. In David King's unique and revealing book, the same photographs, their original images restored, speak volumes of truth. Considering the five decades of official falsifications and zealous concealment, David King's book is heroic, the product of an immense, one-man archaeology (from the preface by Stephen E. Cohen, Princeton University). THE COMMISSAR VANISHES offers a chilling look at how one man, 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. In one famous image, several extraneous Party members disappeared from an official photograph, to be replaced by a sylvan glade. For the past three decades, author and photo historian David King has assembled the world's largest archive of photographs, posters, and paintings from the Soviet era. King began his collection during a trip to Russia in 1970, when he discovered that thousands of images of Stalin's victims had been lost to posterity, either by design or neglect. His collection has grown to more than a quarter of a million images, the best of which have been selected for THE COMMISSAR VANISHES. The efforts of the Kremlin airbrushers were often unintentionally hilarious. A 1919 photograph showing a large crowd of Bolsheviks clustered around Lenin, for example, 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 perhaps the most macabre sequence of all, THE COMMISSAR VANISHES reproduces photographs from a book in the personal library of a prominent Soviet artist. The faces of the subjects, many of them dissidents purged under Stalin, had been crudely blacked out in ink: the owner had been required by law to censor his own books. THE COMMISSAR VANISHES is nothing less than the history of the Soviet Union, as retold through falsified images, many of them published here for the first time outside Russia. In each case, the juxtaposition of the original and the doctored images yields a terrifying, and often tragically funny, insight into one of the darkest chapters of modern history. XX DAVID KING has produced and designed many books on Soviet subjects, including a photographic biography of Leon Trotsky. The art editor of the London Sunday Times magazine from 1965 to 1975, King lives in London. STEPHEN F. COHEN is Professor of Politics and Russian Studies at Princeton University and the author of several books., Books<

1997, ISBN: 9780805052947

New York : Henry Holt and Company/Metropolitan Books, 1997. Hardcover. Good. Original boards, (full page) illustrations in colour and b/w, 4to., New York : Henry Holt and Company/Metrop… More...

New York : Henry Holt and Company/Metropolitan Books, 1997. Hardcover. Good. Original boards, (full page) illustrations in colour and b/w, 4to., New York : Henry Holt and Company/Metropolitan Books, 1997, 2.5<