Search Results: Photomontage from Biblionne

One of 5 000 copies printed. Rare in good condition.
The collection of feuilletons about labor in pre-revolutionary Russia and the new Soviet country was written by Mikhail Kol'tsov (born Moisey Fridlyand; 1898-1940/2), a journalist and a prominent figure in the Soviet intellectual elite, who also served as an NKVD agent. He played a pivotal role as the founder and editor of Ogonek, Chudak, Krokodil, and Sovetskoe Fotomagazines, and was a member of the editorial board of Pravda. Kol'tsov is renowned for being Stalin's chief reporter during the Spanish Civil War. Notably, Ernest Hemingway portrayed Kol'tsov as the character Karkov in his novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls."In 1938, Kol'tsov faced arrest, and he was subsequently executed either in 1940 or 1942. His name and works were banned and removed from Soviet literature during this period.

[Labour union edition].
From the collection of Marcel Bekus (1888-1939) - historian of revolution and Socialism, born in Warsaw, participant in the Russian 1905 revolution, lived in France. Bekus had the large collection of Russian revolution books.
Writed by Elektrozavod worker Breiter, with his photoportrait.
We couldn't trace any copy in OCLC.

The stamps "From the books of Ya. Khelemsky" to title and several pages.
One of 5.000 copies printed.The unique edition of Aleksandr Mitrofanov book.
G.Adamovitch in his critic review wrote a lot of good words about this novel.
Photomontage to covers without sign. S. Telingater and G. Klutsis work that year for the covers of the serie.
Rare edition. OCLC locates two copy in USA: in University of Chicago and in UC Berkeley Libraries. Other two copies are in Canada and Switzerland. Wecouldn't trace any copy in UK Libraries.

One of 15.000 copies printed.
First edition.
An unusual book of poems published during the beginning of Cold War, but designed as the best Soviet editions of 1930s. Photoillustration is on the front side of the dust jacket, depicting Mayakovsky posing on the Brooklyn Bridge. In 1925 V. Mayakovsky planned to make a trip around the world, but it didn't work out and the poet didn't get even to the western coast of America and spent three months in USA. The result of the trip was a manuscript of a book of essays Moe otkrytie Ameriki [My discovery of America] and the cycle of poems. Essays interspersed with poems in this edition.
Vasily Katanyan, literary critic, Mayakovsky's biographer and a member of the Left Art Front (LEF), prepared for publication a large corpus of the poet's texts. An editor of this publication was A. Tarasenkov, a famous bibliophile and expert on Soviet poetry of the XXth century.
OCLC locates two copies in USA: in MoMA and Princeton library

R.I. Kalmens - traslation from German. B.A. Kal'pus - foreword. N. Borov – covers with photomontageOne of 20.000 copies printed.A series of books about a healthy lifestyle of the Danish gymnast Joergen Peter Mueller (1866-1938) was very popular in pre-revolutionary Russia. In 1911 Müller came to Russia and acted in Moscow and St. Petersburg where showed as it is necessary to carry out exercises.Naym Borov (1906-1942) was architect and interior designer, he headed one of architecture workshops in Moscow. There he collaborated with another artist Grigorii Zamskii (1903-1984) as well as for several other photomontage covers for this publishing house. N. Borov was killed during WWII. Boris Kal'pus (1895-1938) created his own system of hand-to-hand fight for Red Army. He was shot during Great Purge.

This photo album devoted to the construction of the Lower Svir Hydroelectric Station. According to the original project, three dams with hydroelectric power plants should have been built on the Svir River (the north-east from Leningrad). However only two of them were built. The construction started in 1927 and was headed by the engineer and one of the founders of the GOELRO plan Genrikh Graftio. In 1931 the concentration camp of Svirlag was established. Many convicts worked at the construction untill 1935. During WWII the dam was destroyed and restored after the war. The Upper Svir Hydroelectric Station was reopened only in 1952. The engineer Genrikh Graftio and Volodymyr Zatonsky, the member of the Central Control Commission, are on the last photo with photomontage. In 1937 Zatonsky was arrested and executed. The album was prepared for delegates of the 4th Hydrological Conference of the Baltic States, which took place on September 1933 in Leningrad. The conference was attended by 400 scientists from… Read More

With Varvara Stepanova stamp on the back cover's turnover. Artist's copy.One of 10 000 copies published.
Cover and typography design were prepared by Russian constructivist artist Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958). She was a long-time partner of Alexander Rodchenko. The stamp contains their home and workshop address. The issue also contains posters and photomontage from Vladimir Mayakovsky's books by Alexander Rodchenko.

Text by E. Bauman, V. Shalunovskii. Photos by V. Uvarov. Illustrations by A. Sokolov[Moskva-Kiev], Informatsionno-reklamnoe biuro Upravleniia kinofikatsii i kinoprokata; Kievskaya fabrika tsvetnoi pechati, 1966Advertising leaflet of War and Peace film (directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, 4 series, 1965-1967) - one of the most important film in the history of Soviet cinema. The Russian version of the film based on the Tolstoy's novel War and Peace became a question of honour for Soviet Union. Filmmakers were allowed access to museum collections, the Ministry of Defence of the USSR sponsored battle scenes. This edition was published for the first run of the first series of the film. The color and black and white photographs by set designer Vladimir Uvarov. War and Peace won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1969) and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1969). We couldn't trace any copy of this edition in OCLC