URSS EN CONSTRUCTION/ L'EPOPEE DU TCHELIOUSKINE, NR 10 1934

One of the more outstanding issues of this landmark periodical, this one devoted to Dnieprostroi, designed by Lissitzky and Alpert. As Martin Parr says, from 1930-1940 URSS en Construction employed the best Soviet photo-journalists and graphic designers. Amongst t he photographers were Max Alpert, Arkadi Shaikhet, Georgi Zeima, Boris Ignatovich, Semen Fridland and Georgi Shaikhet. Designers inc luded El Lissitzky, Sophie Kueppers, Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova, and Nikolai Troshin who designed this issue and over forty ot...[Read more]