Soviet Photography #1-12 January-June 1929 Sovetskoe Foto

Original vintage compilation of the Soviet magazines Soviet Photography / Sovetskoe Foto #1-12 January-June 1929, the only biweekly specialist photography magazine in the Soviet Union, founded by the writer and editor Mikhail Kotsov in April 1926, and published in Moscow till 1991. The magazine promoted the 'worker photograpy' and the official photographic culture of the USSR. Includes articles about photography in the press, sports photography in winter, Lenin about photography, technical features, work of photo communities, analysis of amateur photographs, printing from negatives, Anti-Alcohol Photo contest, shooting under artificial light, photography lessons for beginners, illustrated with black and white photographs by the artists and photographers A. Rodchenko El Lissitzky, A. Shaihet, M. Zheleznyak, N. Makarov, N. Fatakhov, K. Davydov, N. Chernov, N. Kapelyush, A. Zarazin, S. Polyakov, A. Moryakin, G. Petrusov, M. Kaufman, B. Konev, M. Grinev, I. Gorokhov, and others. Published by Ogonek, Moscow, 417 pages. Fair condition, staining, tears on the spine and some pages, paper browning, creasing, pencil writing