THE POWER OF PICTURES

Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, photography, film, and posters played an essential role in the campaign to disseminate modern ity and Communist ideology. From early experimental works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to the modernist photojournalism o f Arkady Shaikhet and Max Penson, Soviet photographers were not only in the vanguard of style and technological innovation but also radical in their integration of art and politics. Filmmakers such as Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, and Esfir Shub pioneered cinem atic tech...[Read more]