ARTHIST 245 - Photographic Utopia Under Stalin

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Stanford University

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Description:

Photographic practices of foreign and Soviet travelers searching for the future in Russia and the Central Asian Republics during Stalin's crash industrialization and forced collectivization program of the 30s. Topics include utopia, propaganda, image-text relations. Protagonists include: photojournalists Lotte Jacobi, Margaret Bourke-White, Max Al'pert, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and Ella Maillart; photomonteur John Heartfield; documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens; writers Langston Hughes and Sergei Tret'iakov; and theorists Enzensberger, Benjamin, Barthes, and Derrida. 5 units, Spr (Gough, M)

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5.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.stanford.edu/

Phone Number:

(650) 723-2300

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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