Russia

Art historian Ian Jeffrey has sifted through WWII soldier albums and selected the most compelling photos to create a record of lives that have seen the unprecedented. Style & content of the photographs changed along with the collective mood after 1942.

The out-of-print catalog volume 'Soviet Photography of the 1920s and 1930s' shows the great creative wealth: photographers of Pictoialism and Soviet avant-garde developed in parallel with each other until Stalinist ideology gave a direction.

PB. (no dust jacket, as issued) 23 x 23 cm., 116 pp., color ills., English, Ltd. to 20 copies +5 AP

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 27 cm., 120 pp. (+8 pp. booklet), b/w ills., English

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issiued), 23,5 x 27,5 x 2,5 cm., 280 pp., b/w ills., English

In is photo volume 'Siberian Summer', Olaf Otto BECKER documents the inhospitable formations of earth and ice that tower like abstract sculptures above wet beaches in the permafrost zone, a group of researchers and the half-ruined port city of Tiksi.

The Anti-War book 'Kriegsfibel' (War primer) by Bertolt Brecht and Ruth Berlau processes press photos from the Second World War. Images of machines and gruesome scenes were given new captions, socialist-realist epigrams to give the scenes a primal meaning

Out-of-print 'Moments in History' focuses on those works Margaret BOURKE-WHITE made in the 1930s and 40s in Czechia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union as well as in the UK. It shows photographs and excerpts from letters as well as publications in magazines

The catalog on Sergey BRATKOV, titled 'Glory Days', contains images from 1997 to 2007- an idiosyncratic mix of reportage & staged photography. It places his work in the context of recent photographic art and the social environment in Russia and in Ukraine