Martin A. Miller

Observers from Abroad

Twentieth Century Western Documentary Photography in the USSR

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Observers from Abroad offers an examination of published and archival images of Soviet Russia, providing a deeper understanding of the complexities and vicissitudes of its political culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032532875
• ISBN-10: 1032532874
• Artikelnr.: 72104801

Autorenporträt

Martin A. Miller is Professor in the Department of History at Duke University, USA. His research interests are best described by his books: Kropotkin (1976), a scholarly biography of the prominent Russian anarchist, Peter Kropotkin; The Russian Revolutionary Exiles (1985), an analysis of the first generation of political exiles from Imperial Russia in Western Europe; Freud and the Bolsheviks (1996), an exploration of the influence of Freud and the origins of psychoanalytic theory in Russia; and The Foundations of Modern Terrorism: State, Society, and the Dynamics of Political Violence (2013), an analysis of the interaction of state and insurgent terrorism since the French Revolution in the Western world.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The USSR in Black and White 1. First Pictorial Impressions
from Revolutionary Russia 2. James Abbe: The Original Photographic Cold
Warrior 3. Margaret Bourke-White: Modernity and the Machine Age 4. John
Heartfield: The Dialectics of Communist Photomontage 5. Robert Capa:
Travels with Steinbeck 6. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Aesthetic Humanist 7.
The Tense and Tender Imagery of William Klein 8. Inge Morath's Russian
Intelligentsia 9. Brief Encounters with a Dying State Conclusion