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Sovetskoe Foto covers: October 1927 (left), January 1934 (middle), August–September 1991 (right). View and download full-size images on Flickr.
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Montage of available Sovetskoe Foto covers published between 1926 and 1991. Visualization by Alise Tifentale, image editing by Lev Manovich. Scroll down to see a larger image in Figure 1. View and download full-size image on Flickr.
Published in Moscow, Russia, from 1926 to 1991, Sovetskoe Foto (Soviet Photography) was the only specialized photography magazine in the Soviet Union, aimed at a broad audience of professional photojournalists and amateur photographers. As such, it is unequaled in representing the official photographic culture of the USSR throughout the history of this country. We explore the digital archive of Sovetskoe Foto to find out what it can tell us about the history of this remarkable magazine and the twentieth-century photography in general.
Authors
Lev Manovich, Alise Tifentale, and Agustín Indaco. 2018.
Selected Visualizations
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Project Page
Learn more about the research on the project page Exploring photography magazine Sovetskoe Foto, 1926–1991.
Article
Alise Tifentale, “Seeing a Century Through the Lens of Sovetskoe Foto,” 2018. Read the full-text article on Exploring photography magazine Sovetskoe Foto, 1926–1991 or download a pdf.
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