Item nr. 128801 URSS en Construction, La Construction du Combine Chimique de Berezinski et des Mines de Potasse de Solikamsk. G PIATAKOV.
URSS en Construction, La Construction du Combine Chimique de Berezinski et des Mines de Potasse de Solikamsk.
URSS en Construction, La Construction du Combine Chimique de Berezinski et des Mines de Potasse de Solikamsk.

URSS en Construction, La Construction du Combine Chimique de Berezinski et des Mines de Potasse de Solikamsk.



PIATAKOV
, G. (Editor). URSS en Construction. La Construction du Combine Chimique de Berezinski et des Mines de Potasse de Solikamsk. 15th Year Number 5. [40] pp. Illustrated with a plethora of Russian photomontage images throughout. Folio, 415 x 300 mm, bound in original wrappers. Moscow: Editions d'Etat des Beaux-Arts, 1932.

A fine copy of one a typical issue of this landmark periodical, this one devoted to Berezinski and Solikamsk. As Martin Parr says "from 1930-1940 URSS en Construction employed the best Soviet photo-journalists and graphic designers. Amongst the photographers were Max Alpert, Arkadi Shaikhet, Georgi Zeima, Boris Ignatovich, Semen Fridland and Georgi Shaikhet. Designers included El Lissitzky, Sophie Kueppers, Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova, and Nikolai Troshin who designed this issue and over forty others. All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks, designed by Lissitzky, Rodchenko and others -- the elaborate photomontages, innovative photography, fold-out pages, transparent overlays and so on -- were developed in URSS en Construction, one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century." It was published in Russian, French, English and German. This is the French version. In fine condition.

Parr and Badger, The Photobook I, 148-149.

Item nr. 128801
Price: $500.00

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