1st Edition
Observers from Abroad Twentieth Century Western Documentary Photography in the USSR
Introduction: The USSR in Black and White 1. First Pictorial Impressions from Revolutionary Russia 2. James Abbe: The Original Photographic Cold Warrior 3. Margaret Bourke-White: Modernity and the Machine Age 4. John Heartfield: The Dialectics of Communist Photomontage 5. Robert Capa: Travels with Steinbeck 6. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Aesthetic Humanist 7. The Tense and Tender Imagery of William Klein 8. Inge Morath’s Russian Intelligentsia 9. Brief Encounters with a Dying State Conclusion
Biography
Martin A. Miller is Professor in the Department of History at Duke University. His research interests are best described by his books: Kropotkin (1976), a scholarly biography of the prominent Russian anarchist, Peter Kropotkin; The Russian Revolutionary Emigres (1985), an analysis of the first generation of political exiles from Imperial Russia in Western Europe; Freud and the Bolsheviks (1996), an exploration of the influence of Freud and the origins of psychoanalytic theory in Russia; and The Foundations of Modern Terrorism: State, Society, and the Dynamics of Political Violence (2013), an analysis of the interaction of state and insurgent terrorism since the French Revolution in the Western world.
