Human Rights Lecture
THE GROUP PHOTO AND THE”POLICY OF DISAPPEARANCE” IN STALIN’S RUSSIA
The aim of this lecture is to analyze from the political and aesthetic perspective the phenomenon of the elimination of the “public enemies” from group photos in Russia during the Stalin era. The analysis has as its empirical starting point photographs we have discovered in the course of research in the archives of several Russian cities. All these photos bear traces of editing, whether that be various marks such as blacking out, excisions or inscriptions left by the Stalin’s police.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
6:00 pm
6:00 pm
Olin 102
