Soviet Photography Sovetskoe Foto #12 1929

Soviet Photography, issue No. 12 - June 1929.  This was the only specialist photography magazine in the Soviet Union. It was published monthly with exceptions being double issues in some years and during 1929 and 1930 when it was published twice a month. Founded by the writer and editor Mikhail Kotsov in April 1926, it was published in Moscow, Russia, from 1926 to 1991. The magazine promoted the 'worker photographer' and the official photographic culture of the USSR, though it also carried examples of state-sanctioned international photography. This issue contains photographs by the various Soviet photographers, such as I Rumyantsev, A Miltsev, M Geleznyak, V Orlovsky, V Ivanov, M Penson, N Kapelush. Acceptable condition. Rubbings and tears on the spine. Dust staining, rubbings and pencil markings on the front and back covers. Library stamp on the back cover. Staining on pages 357-361. Missing pages 365-357. Published by "Ogonek", 1929.