The commissar vanishes
the falsification of photographs and art in Stalin's Russia : photographs from the David King Collection
By King, David
"The commissar vanishes" was published by Metropolitan Books in 1997 - New York, it has 192 pages and the language of the book is English.
“The commissar vanishes” Metadata:
- Title: The commissar vanishes
- Author: King, David
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 192
- Publisher: Metropolitan Books
- Publish Date: 1997
- Publish Location: New York
“The commissar vanishes” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Photographs - Forgeries - Photography - Retouching - Censorship - Political aspects - Political aspects of Photographs - History - Photograph collections - Art, forgeries - Photography, retouching - Soviet union, history, 20th century - Art, political aspects - Soviet Union
- Places: Soviet Union
- Time: 20th century
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: 192 p. :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL22308593M - OL2677823W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 222514463
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 97020832
- ISBN-13: 9780805052947
- ISBN-10: 0805052941
- All ISBNs: 0805052941 - 9780805052947
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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 Party members disappeared from an official photograph, to be replaced by a sylvan glade. For the past three decades, author and photohistorian David King has assembled the world's largest archive of photographs, posters, and paintings from the Soviet era. 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. 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.
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