Russland
El Lissitzky (photographer)
1930
28.8 x 22.2 cm
NA 1188 L769 1930
El Lissitzsky’s Russland: Die Rekonstruction der Architecktur in der Sowjetunion, published in 1930, proposed a new and revolutionary architecture for the Soviet Union. Like the architecture that the book promotes, the book’s photographs offered a new perspective that aligned with Lissitzsky and his colleagues’ revolutionary ideas. For example, the photomontage that graces the cover layers different viewpoints, some of which are taken from extreme camera angles, in order to disrupt our usual viewpoint and prompt a new way of seeing.
Lissitzky's work is associated with Russian Constructivism, while his photographs and photomontages also provide an example of the “new vision” developed at the Bauhaus.
A full scan of the book is available through Yale University Library.