The Soviet Arctic. State Art Publishers, Moscow and Leningrad, 1939. Designed by Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova.
Rare vintage Soviet photo book issued for the World Fair in New York in 1939 and designed by Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova. Text in English. Photo-illustrated endpapers.
The cover features the Soviet arctic camp with two red flags; one displaying a portrait of Stalin and the other the USSR flag with hammer and sickle. Includes black and white photographs of Soviet arctic expeditions to the Chukotsk Peninsula in the East, the Kola Peninsula in the West, and a coloured map indicating the exploration and development of the Soviet Arctic. One of a number of photo books produced for the Soviet pavilion of the 1939 New York World's Fair.
"The album was gravure printed using blue-green cobalt ink. The picture featuring a flag on the last page has red as well. This calls to mind the ending of Sergei Eisenstein's legendary movie Battleship Potemkin, where in the black-and-white film the fluttering flag that symbolised the coming revolution was coloured red by hand." Source: Manfred Heiting andMikhail Karazik, The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941. Verlag Steidl, Göttingen, 2015
Title: The Soviet Arctic
Publisher: State Art Publishers, Moscow and Leningrad
Publication date: 1939
Format: original light grey pebbled cloth, colour-illustrated with white lettering on cover, and white lettering on spine.
Pages: unpaginated
Images: illustrated mostly in b/w
Condition: Central upper edge of front cover marked with a small area of pink paint, various other small marks to covers, upper and lower edges of covers slightly darkened , spine tips rubbed and bumped. Internally unmarked and very good, binding sound.
Stock Number: RB04576 83
Rare vintage Soviet photo book issued for the World Fair in New York in 1939 and designed by Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova. Text in English. Photo-illustrated endpapers.
The cover features the Soviet arctic camp with two red flags; one displaying a portrait of Stalin and the other the USSR flag with hammer and sickle. Includes black and white photographs of Soviet arctic expeditions to the Chukotsk Peninsula in the East, the Kola Peninsula in the West, and a coloured map indicating the exploration and development of the Soviet Arctic. One of a number of photo books produced for the Soviet pavilion of the 1939 New York World's Fair.
"The album was gravure printed using blue-green cobalt ink. The picture featuring a flag on the last page has red as well. This calls to mind the ending of Sergei Eisenstein's legendary movie Battleship Potemkin, where in the black-and-white film the fluttering flag that symbolised the coming revolution was coloured red by hand." Source: Manfred Heiting andMikhail Karazik, The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941. Verlag Steidl, Göttingen, 2015
Title: The Soviet Arctic
Publisher: State Art Publishers, Moscow and Leningrad
Publication date: 1939
Format: original light grey pebbled cloth, colour-illustrated with white lettering on cover, and white lettering on spine.
Pages: unpaginated
Images: illustrated mostly in b/w
Condition: Central upper edge of front cover marked with a small area of pink paint, various other small marks to covers, upper and lower edges of covers slightly darkened , spine tips rubbed and bumped. Internally unmarked and very good, binding sound.
Stock Number: RB04576 83
Rare vintage Soviet photo book issued for the World Fair in New York in 1939 and designed by Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova. Text in English. Photo-illustrated endpapers.
The cover features the Soviet arctic camp with two red flags; one displaying a portrait of Stalin and the other the USSR flag with hammer and sickle. Includes black and white photographs of Soviet arctic expeditions to the Chukotsk Peninsula in the East, the Kola Peninsula in the West, and a coloured map indicating the exploration and development of the Soviet Arctic. One of a number of photo books produced for the Soviet pavilion of the 1939 New York World's Fair.
"The album was gravure printed using blue-green cobalt ink. The picture featuring a flag on the last page has red as well. This calls to mind the ending of Sergei Eisenstein's legendary movie Battleship Potemkin, where in the black-and-white film the fluttering flag that symbolised the coming revolution was coloured red by hand." Source: Manfred Heiting andMikhail Karazik, The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941. Verlag Steidl, Göttingen, 2015
Title: The Soviet Arctic
Publisher: State Art Publishers, Moscow and Leningrad
Publication date: 1939
Format: original light grey pebbled cloth, colour-illustrated with white lettering on cover, and white lettering on spine.
Pages: unpaginated
Images: illustrated mostly in b/w
Condition: Central upper edge of front cover marked with a small area of pink paint, various other small marks to covers, upper and lower edges of covers slightly darkened , spine tips rubbed and bumped. Internally unmarked and very good, binding sound.
Stock Number: RB04576 83