A fascinating account of the avant-garde photo-based arts from the early Soviet Union, featuring many previously unpublished images

Finalist for a 2015 National Jewish Book Award in the Visual Arts category

Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, photography, film, and posters played an essential role in the campaign to disseminate modernity and Communist ideology. From early experimental works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to the modernist photojournalism of Arkady Shaikhet and Max Penson, Soviet photographers were not only in the vanguard of...