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Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition
By David King
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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 Stal...Show more
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ISBN
9781849762519
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Published year
2014
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Edition
1
Original title
Commissar Vanishes:Falsification of Photographs and Art
Format
Paperback
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