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020 $a9781849762519 (pbk.) :$cNT$1225
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 00$aTR85$b.K55 2014
082 04$a303.376$222
100 1 $aKing, David,$d1943-$eauthor.
245 14$aThe Commissar vanishes :$bthe falsification of photographs and art in Stalin's Russia : photographs and graphics from the David King collection /$cDavid King.
250 $aNew edition.
260 $aLondon :$bTate Publishing, in association with Francis Boutle Publishers,$c2014.
300 $a231 p. :$bchiefly ill. (some color) ;$c29 x 29 cm.
500 $aPrevious edition: New York: Metropolitan, 1997.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"This brand new edition of David King's lauded visual history is a unique and brilliant study into the doctoring and propagandizing of Soviet photographs by Stalin's regime. From the creator of the award-winning 'Red Star Over Russia' 'The Commissar Vanishes' offers a chilling look at how Joseph Stalin manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and to erase the memory of his victims. On Stalin's orders, purged rivals were airbrushed from group portraits, and crowd scenes were altered to depict even greater legions of the faithful. For example, a 1919 photograph showing a large crowd of Bolsheviks clustered around Lenin, became, with the aid of the retoucher, an intimate portrait of Lenin and Stalin sitting alone, and then, in a later version, of Stalin by himself. In each case, the juxtaposition of the original and the doctored images yields a fascinating, terrifying and tragic insight into one of the darkest chapters of modern history"--$cSource other than Library of Congress.
600 10$aStalin, Joseph,$d1878-1953.
650 0$aPhotography$zSoviet Union$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0$aPhotographs$xCensorship$zSoviet Union.
650 0$aPhotographs$xPolitical aspects$zSoviet Union.
650 0$aPhotography$xRetouching$zSoviet Union.
650 0$aArt$xForgeries$zSoviet Union.
650 0$aPhotographs$xForgeries$zSoviet Union.
651 0$aSoviet Union$xHistory$y1929-1953.