1. | ![]() | Alexander Rodchenko 1933 Magazine cover for "USSR in Construction" Issue #12, 1933 [White Sea Canal Issue] Magazine cover Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006) Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com) |
2. | ![]() | Alexander Rodchenko 1933 Inside layout for "USSR in Construction" Issue #12, 1933 [White Sea Canal Issue] Magazine layout Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006) Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com) |
3. | ![]() | Alexander Rodchenko 1933 Inside layout for "USSR in Construction" Issue #12, 1933 [White Sea Canal Issue] Magazine layout Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006) Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com) |
4. | ![]() | Alexander Rodchenko 1935 Magazine cover for "SSSR na Strojke" (USSR in Construction) Issue #12, 1935 [Parachute Issue] Magazine cover Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006) Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com) |
5. | ![]() | Alexander Rodchenko 1935 Inside layout for "SSSR na Strojke" (USSR in Construction) Issue #12, 1935 [Parachute Issue] Magazine layout Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006) Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com) |
6. | ![]() | Alexander Rodchenko 1935 Inside layout for "SSSR na Strojke" (USSR in Construction) Issue #12, 1935 [Parachute Issue] Magazine layout Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006) Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com) |
7. | ![]() | Alexander Rodchenko 1935 Inside layout for "SSSR na Strojke" (USSR in Construction) Issue #12, 1935 [Parachute Issue] Magazine layout Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006) Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com) |
8. | ![]() | El Lissitzky 1934 (ca) Photomontage for "USSR in Construction" Photomontage Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006) Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com) |
9. | ![]() | Unidentified photographer 1934 (ca) Max Alpert and Georgii Petrusov at the Offices of "USSR in Construction" Gelatin silver print Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006) Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com) |
10. | ![]() | El Lissitzky 1935, August Magazine cover by El Lissitzky "URSS en Construction, No. 8." ([Moscow]: Oghis-Isoghis, Ao¹t 1935) Magazine cover Swann Galleries - New York Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, "Important Photograms & Photobooks", Dec 9, 2010, #2233, Lot 313) La Dix-HuitÞme Année de la Révolution. Illustrated with bold reproductions of nationalistic photographs, employing photomontage, graphic overlay and striking color. Folio, printed pictorial stapled wrappers. Parr/Badger I 148. first french edition. Aimed at an international audience, USSR in Construction employed the best designers and photographers, including Max Alpert, Georgi Zeima, Georgi Shaikhet, El Lissitzky, Sophie Kuppers and Alexander Rodchenko. The prototype for many propagandist publications to come, this publication employed, by Stalin's decree, photography as a purveyor of truth, and as a means of disseminating the Soviet state narrative. |
11. | ![]() | 1937, September-December USSR Under Construction, 1937, Issues 9-12, September-December (combined) - The Stalin Constitution Magazine cover University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections Call Number: DK266.A2U5 |
12. | ![]() | 1937, September-December USSR Under Construction, 1937, Issues 9-12, September-December (combined) - The Stalin Constitution Magazine page University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections Call Number: DK266.A2U5 p. 22 |
13. | ![]() | 1937, September-December USSR Under Construction, 1937, Issues 9-12, September-December (combined) - The Stalin Constitution Magazine page University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections Call Number: DK266.A2U5 p. 113 |
14. | ![]() | 1937, September-December USSR Under Construction, 1937, Issues 9-12, September-December (combined) - The Stalin Constitution Magazine page University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections Call Number: DK266.A2U5 p. 114 |
15. | ![]() | 1937, September-December USSR Under Construction, 1937, Issues 9-12, September-December (combined) - The Stalin Constitution Magazine page University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections Call Number: DK266.A2U5 pp. 113-114 |
16. | ![]() | 1939, January USSR Under Construction, 1939, Issue 1, January - Soviet Cossacks Magazine cover University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections Call Number: DK266.A2U5 |
17. | ![]() | 1938, April USSR Under Construction, 1938, Issue 4, April - Election of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Magazine cover University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections Call Number: DK266.A2U5 |
18. | ![]() | 1938, April USSR Under Construction, 1938, Issue 4, April - Election of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Magazine page University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections Call Number: DK266.A2U5 p. 41 |
19. | ![]() | 1938, February USSR Under Construction, 1938, Issue 2, February - Moscow-Volga Canal Magazine cover University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections Call Number: DK266.A2U5 This issue shed a spotlight on the Moscow-Volga Canal, a canal that connects the Moskva River with the main transportation artery of European Russia, the Volga River. The issue presents a photojournalistic tour, accompanied by elaborate desciptions, of the Canal. Only passing mentions are made of the Gulag prisoners who were forced to construct the canal over the period of 1932 to 1937. 40 pages. |
20. | ![]() | 1938, February USSR Under Construction, 1938, Issue 2, February - Moscow-Volga Canal Magazine page University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections Call Number: DK266.A2U5 p. 34 This issue shed a spotlight on the Moscow-Volga Canal, a canal that connects the Moskva River with the main transportation artery of European Russia, the Volga River. The issue presents a photojournalistic tour, accompanied by elaborate desciptions, of the Canal. Only passing mentions are made of the Gulag prisoners who were forced to construct the canal over the period of 1932 to 1937. 40 pages. |
21. | ![]() | 1938, July USSR Under Construction, 1938, Issue 7, July - Soviet Railways Magazine page University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections Call Number: DK266.A2U5 pp. 28-29 The issue highlights Soviet railways, focusing not only upon the founders, but the workers and passengers as well. 48 pages. |