The Commissar Vanishes The Falsification of Photogrphs and Art in Stalin's Russia |
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| Author:
| King, David |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8050-5295-4 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1999 |
| Publisher: | Henry Holt & Company
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| Imprint: | Owl Books |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $23.00 |
Book Description:
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The Commissar Vanishes has been hailed as a brilliant, indispensable record of an era. The Commissar Vanishes offers a unique and chilling look at how one man--Joseph Stalin--manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and erase the memory of his victims. Over the past thirty years David King has assembled the world's largest archive of doctored Soviet photographs, the best of which appear here, in a book.
The Commissar Vanishes has been hailed as a brilliant, indispensable record of an era. The Commissar Vanishes offers a unique and chilling look at how one man--Joseph Stalin--manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and erase the memory of his victims. Over the past thirty years David King has assembled the world's largest archive of doctored Soviet photographs, the best of which appear here, in a book.